Software Engineer, Associate II
Freddie Mac22 hours ago
McLean, VA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$85k - $127k/yr
Responsibilities
- Translate requirements into actionable technical plans and break down complex engineering problems.
- Deliver secure, resilient, maintainable, and production-grade applications and services.
- Implement rigorous testing, performance standards, monitoring, logging, alerting, and production support practices.
- Optimize CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, release planning, and production validation.
- Partner with Product, Architecture, Platform/DevOps, Security, and Agile Development Leads.
- Support cloud migrations, legacy-system modernization, incident triage, root-cause analysis, and technical-debt reduction.
Requirements
- Typically 1–3 years of software engineering experience delivering production-grade applications and services.
- College degree or equivalent experience is preferred.
- Experience with AWS cloud services, including ECS/EKS, Lambda, EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, IAM, and CloudWatch, plus CloudFormation, CDK, or Terraform.
- Knowledge of CI/CD, automated testing, code reviews, branching strategies, release practices, observability, and production support.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience modernizing legacy systems and/or supporting cloud migrations.
- Familiarity with data protection, access controls, auditability, and security and compliance expectations in regulated environments.
- Experience with multiple programming languages and frameworks, plus the ability to select appropriate tools.
- Strong communication skills for explaining technical concepts and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits
- Full-time position with a comprehensive total rewards package and market-leading benefit programs.
- Eligible to participate in the annual incentive program.
- Freddie Mac provides reasonable accommodation during the application, interview, and employment process.
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About Freddie Mac
Freddie Mac is a government-sponsored enterprise that buys mortgages from lenders, securitizes them into mortgage-backed securities, and guarantees timely payments to investors, providing liquidity for U.S. housing. It operates across single-family and multifamily markets, earning guarantee fees and investment income. Founded in 1970 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, it remains under Federal Housing Finance Agency conservatorship, supporting affordable homeownership and rental housing.