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Since our charter in 1970, we have made home possible for more than 90 million families across the country. Join an organization where your work contributes to a greater purpose.\nAt Freddie Mac, our mission of Making Home Possible is what motivates us, and it’s at the core of everything we do. Since our charter in 1970, we have made home possible for more than 90 million families across the country. Join an organization where your work contributes to a greater purpose.\nPosition Overview:\nWe are seeking an experienced Software Engineering Tech Lead to provide hands-on technical leadership for the design, delivery, and modernization of Multifamily application platforms and full-stack digital capabilities. This role will guide engineering teams in building secure, scalable, and resilient Java-based microservices solutions while partnering closely with Product Owners, engineering managers, architects, and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality business outcomes. The Tech Lead will also advance engineering maturity by promoting practical adoption of AI-assisted development lifecycle (AIDLC) practices across design, development, testing, code quality, and delivery execution.\nOur Impact: \nFreddie Mac's Multifamily division advances affordable rental housing by purchasing apartment loans from a national network of lenders and transforming those loans into securities that attract global investors.\nThe Multifamily Technology Team plays a critical role in this mission by:\nEnabling Multifamily business teams to operate more efficiently through secure, scalable, and user-focused digital applications that support critical business processes across loan acquisition, asset management, securitization, risk, and portfolio operations.\n\nModernizing application platforms and reducing manual dependencies to improve usability, operational efficiency, scalability, reliability, and confidence in the technology capabilities that support critical Multifamily business processes.\n\nDelivering secure, resilient, auditable, and well-architected platform capabilities that business teams can depend on to operate at scale, manage risk, meet regulatory expectations, and support long-term Multifamily growth.\n\nYour Impact:\nAs a Software Engineering Tech Lead, you will guide the technical execution of modern application platform capabilities that meet evolving Multifamily business and end-user needs. You will provide hands-on directions for full-stack applications, APIs, microservices, and integration services while reinforcing engineering discipline across design, development, testing, deployment, observability, and production readiness. You will influence technical decisions, mentor developers, resolve engineering blockers, and partner with engineering managers to help teams deliver secure, reliable, and maintainable solutions.\nWhat you will be doing:\nProvide technical leadership for agile teams responsible for delivering modern full-stack application capabilities, including user-facing applications, APIs, microservices, integration services, platform modernization, and production enhancements.\n\nProvide technical direction across squads by guiding solution design, reviewing implementation approaches, and helping teams make scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable engineering decisions.\n\nPartner closely with Product Owners, engineering managers, architecture, business stakeholders, and cross-functional technology teams to align technical priorities, manage dependencies, and deliver business outcomes.\n\nDrive the design and implementation of Java-based microservices, REST APIs, front-end applications, and integration services using modern technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, AWS, Angular or React, SQL, relational databases, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing frameworks.\n\nCreate proofs of concept, demos, and prototypes to evaluate emerging technologies, validate new ideas, and accelerate adoption of modern engineering patterns and platform capabilities.\n\nEstablish and reinforce software engineering standards, including scalable design, code quality, automated testing, peer reviews, deployment discipline, application security, and operational readiness.\n\nEnsure solutions are designed and delivered with appropriate compliance, auditability, security, resiliency, accessibility, and production support considerations.\n\nStrengthen production support practices by improving incident triage, root-cause analysis, observability, recovery patterns, and continuous improvement of application and platform reliability.\n\nMentor developers through design reviews, code reviews, technical problem solving, implementation guidance, and knowledge sharing.\n\nPromote engineering ownership, collaboration, continuous improvement, and accountability through technical influence and consistent delivery practices.\n\nQualifications:\n8+ years of related software engineering or technology delivery experience, including demonstrated technical leadership experience guiding engineering teams through complex application delivery.\n\nBachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or a related technical discipline, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and work experience; advanced degree preferred.\n\nDemonstrated experience leading complex engineering initiatives across full-stack applications, APIs, microservices, platform modernization, integration services, and production enhancements.\n\nRequired hands-on or technical leadership experience with Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices architecture, AWS or cloud-native application development, Angular or React, SQL, relational databases, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing frameworks.\n\nStrong background in full-stack software engineering, application architecture, API design, enterprise integration patterns, application security, performance, resiliency, and delivery of scalable digital products for business and end-user needs.\n\nExperience establishing and applying software engineering standards, including scalable design, code quality, automated testing, peer reviews, deployment discipline, compliance standards, auditability, and production readiness.\n\nProven ability to provide technical direction, evaluate solution options, guide architecture and implementation decisions, and create proofs of concept or demos to validate new ideas and emerging technologies.\n\nExperience supporting production reliability through incident triage, root-cause analysis, observability, resiliency improvements, and operational readiness practices.\n\nStrong technical leadership skills, including mentoring, coaching, peer review, influencing without direct authority, and helping developers grow through practical engineering guidance.\n\nAbility to coordinate technical dependencies with vendors, Product Owners, architecture teams, business stakeholders, and internal engineering teams to deliver software solutions effectively.\n\nKeys to Success in this Role:\nProvide practical technical direction that helps teams make sound design, implementation, testing, and production readiness decisions.\n\nMentor developers, strengthen engineering practices, and promote knowledge sharing through practical technical guidance and peer collaboration.\n\nBuild trust across engineering teams by modeling ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement in day-to-day technical delivery.\n\nMaintain focus on production quality, platform resiliency, auditability, and operational excellence throughout the software delivery lifecycle.\n\nCommunicate effectively with Product Owners, architecture partners, business stakeholders, and engineering teams to align expectations and remove delivery blockers.\n\nUse engineering metrics, delivery insights, and production support learnings to improve technical execution, delivery predictability, and platform reliability.\n\nBring strong technical discipline across agile delivery by clarifying design decisions, managing technical dependencies, and keeping teams focused on high-quality engineering outcomes.\n\nCurrent Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site.\nWe 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.\nA 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.\nCA 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.\nNotice to External Search Firms: Freddie Mac partners with BountyJobs for contingency search business through outside firms. Resumes received outside the BountyJobs system will be considered unsolicited and Freddie Mac will not be obligated to pay a placement fee. If interested in learning more, please visit www.BountyJobs.com and register with our referral code: MAC.\nTime-type:Full timeFLSA Status:ExemptFreddie 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.\nThis position has an annualized market-based salary range of $154,000 - $230,000 and is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program. 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