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Position Overview:

We are seeking a highly skilled Professional Software Engineer to join our team and enhance our internal data platform. This role requires expertise in modern cloud-based data infrastructure to support data-driven decision-making and modeling across the organization. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in data engineering, software engineering, and AWS familiarity.

Our Impact:

We manage a critical internal data platform supporting key business operations, including prepayment model development, trading analytics, and securitization.

We collaborate with various teams to understand their data requirements and design systems that align with their business objectives.

We ensure our systems are robust, scalable, fault-tolerant, and cost-effective.

Your Impact:

Design, build, maintain and support ETL/ELT data pipelines using AWS Services (e.g. AWS EMR) and Snowflake

Maintain data ingestion libraries written in Java and Python

Design and develop new code, review existing code changes, and implement automated tests.

Actively seek opportunities to continuously improve the technical quality and architecture to improve the product’s business value.

Improve the product’s test automation and deployment practices to enable the team to deliver features more efficiently.

Operate the data pipelines in production including release management and production support.

Qualifications:

At least 2 years of experience developing production software

Strong Python skills with at least two years of experience writing production code

At least one year of experience in data engineering with either Apache Spark or Snowflake

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience

Experience writing automated unit, integration, regression, performance and acceptance tests

Solid understanding of software design principles

Keys to Success in this Role:

Passionate about hands-on software development

A desire to work on all aspects of the software development lifecycle: requirements gathering, design, development, testing and operations

Strong collaboration and communication skills (both written and verbal) 

Desire to continuously improve the team’s technical practices

Ability to quickly learn, apply and deploy new technologies to solve emerging problems

Current Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site.

We consider all applicants for all positions without regard to gender, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, physical and mental disability, pregnancy, ethnicity, genetic information or any other protected categories under applicable federal, state or local laws. We will ensure that individuals are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

A safe and secure environment is critical to Freddie Mac’s business. This includes employee commitment to our acceptable use policy, applying a vigilance-first approach to work, supporting regulatory mandates, and using best practices to protect Freddie Mac from potential threats and risk. Employees exercise this responsibility by executing against policies and procedures and adhering to privacy & security obligations as required via training programs.

CA Applicants:  Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

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Time-type:Full time

FLSA Status:Exempt

Freddie Mac offers a comprehensive total rewards package to include competitive compensation and market-leading benefit programs. Information on these benefit programs is available on our Careers site.

This position has an annualized market-based salary range of $109,000 - $163,000 and is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program. The final salary offered will generally fall within this range and is dependent on various factors including but not limited to the responsibilities of the position, experience, skill set, internal pay equity and other relevant qualifications of the applicant.