About the position
At Freddie Mac, you will do important work to build a better housing finance system and you'll be part of a team helping to make homeownership and rental housing more accessible and affordable across the nation. Are you a self-motivated and creative professional with a passion in technology and using it to solve everyday problems and make valuable contributions? Apply to join us, the Single Family IT team! This is not just a Agile Development Associate II position, but a developer with an attitude to think holistically to provide innovative solutions that are flexible and dependable. You will be part of a software development team that will work on projects for critical Freddie Mac core applications. We comprise of business, analysis, testing, and infrastructure partners, all working together to enhance the capabilities of these systems!
Responsibilities
- Understand Business needs and processes; identify solutions, present and work with project team/sponsors in identifying best solution.
- Participate in Requirements Analysis; design Applications based on System Requirements; promote top code quality and solve challenging issues related to performance tuning and scalability.
- Participate in backlog grooming, development, and unit testing.
- Provide hands-on test automation support in writing, maintaining, and improving test code with best coding practices followed.
- Provide production support that includes evaluate defects, investigate cause, and come up with solutions to address defects.
Requirements
- BS / BA with Computer Science or Information Technology, or related field.
- 1-to-2-year(s) experience with SAFE Agile, Kanban or SCRUM frameworks.
- At least 2 years of experience in: Java /J2EE, Spring (Spring Core, Spring Rest, Spring Boot) or equivalent programming languages (C++, Angular, Python), Groovy a plus.
- At least 1 year of experience in databases management: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Sybase with advanced SQL knowledge.
- At least 2 years of experience in test automation concepts, frameworks, UI automation using standard automation languages.
- At least 1 year of DevOps experience in AWS environment or equivalent (Azure, Google).
- Experience with UML, SQL and UNIX Shell Script.
- Experience with SOAP & REST based Web services is preferred.
- Familiarity with Bootstrap, JSON, Jenkins, Maven Builds is a plus.
- Experience in developing APIs using Spring Boot framework, ideally with Docker container or OpenShift Cloud Platform (OCP).
- Modern Tools: TFS, Jenkins, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Cucumber, Atlassian Suite (Bamboo, Jira, Bitbucket), Git.
- Hands-on experience with Build and Deployment tools and languages preferred.
- Knowledge of the Mortgage Industry is a nice to have.
- Experience with Agile or Waterfall software development project methodologies preferred.
- Demonstrated analytical ability and problem-solving skills.
- Self-starter; collaborative; problem-solver.
- Organized, ability to meet deadlines, work independently, manage priorities.
- Proficient in documenting and communicating ideas clearly.
- Ability to resolve issues in a non-confrontational manner.
- Good interpersonal and relationship building skill.
Nice-to-haves
- Knowledge of the Mortgage Industry is a nice to have.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation.
- Market-leading benefit programs.
