Single Family Software Developer Intern - Summer 2025

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. We are accepting applications for this position until 10/11/2024. The Single-Family Business Technology Office (BTO) within Freddie Mac is searching for driven individuals to join our organization to help us deliver solutions to the business. BTO is building a world class technology platform to meet customer needs, manage technology risk leveraging emerging technologies, and modernize cloud capabilities to provide reduced delivery cycle time and increased resiliency. Freddie Mac is a dynamic environment with constant change that enables Software Developer Interns to grow through a wide variety of experiences and responsibilities. Our Single-Family Intern program is crafted to ease the transition of college into the workforce by providing skills training, mentorship, buddy programs, as well as in-class learning opportunities with senior leadership. Interns actively work on real-world projects using cutting edge technologies in a Scaled Agile framework to support Freddie Mac's outstanding role in the mortgage industry!

Responsibilities

• Understand Business needs and processes; identify solutions, present and work with project team/sponsors in identifying the best solution
• Participate in Requirements Analysis; design Applications based on System Requirements; promote top code quality and solve ambitious issues related to performance tuning and scalability
• Implementation of software application changes with daring deployment timelines
• Complete department processes in a high-quality, efficient, and team-oriented manner
• Work with your team to refine user stories to be selected in upcoming sprints
• Assess the Acceptance Criteria of a User Story to know how to enhance existing code or develop new features in application and know what test scenarios will be involved for the story
• Maintain and enhance unit tests and automation scripts
• Help with production support by responding to any business users’ issues/questions and analyze logs to determine root cause of issues
• Support production releases
• Collaborate with team members on new development and finding root cause of bugs
• Develop and analyze code (frontend and backend) for the tasks assigned during sprints
• Participate in robust technical trainings, brown bag bootcamps, hackathons, and new hire technical program education.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related software development experience and coursework
• Graduating in December 2025 or May 2026 with availability to work (May – August)
• College-level experience with coding practices and languages (such as Java, C/C++, Python, Angular/Springboot, or others)
• Knowledge of Agile software development project methodologies preferred
• Experience with popular business tools (Windows, Office Professional, Visio, SharePoint, etc.)

Nice-to-haves

• Effective communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to interact and work in individual and/or team basis
• Must be able to work collaboratively
• Desire continuous learning of new and emerging technologies

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Market-leading benefit programs