Position Overview:At Freddie Mac, our mission of Making Home Possible is what motivates us, and it is at the core of everything we do. We are seeking a hands-on Full Stack Tech Lead Engineer to lead the design and delivery of modern, intuitive enterprise applications with a strong emphasis on UI/UX, front-end architecture, accessibility, and user-centered engineering.
This role combines full stack engineering depth with technical leadership. The successful candidate will establish reusable front-end patterns, translate complex business workflows into clear user experiences, define service and API integration approaches, and guide engineers through architecture, development, testing, deployment, and production support.
Our Impact:The Identity and Access Management team, part of the Enterprise Business Technology Operation (BTO) organization, enables business operational excellence through the flexible use of technology. The department provides IT strategic services (software development, enhancements, and production support) to support the needs of the Enterprise groups - External Relations and Corporate Communications, Finance, Human Resources, Internal Audit, Legal, Operational Resilience, and Regulatory Affairs. This role will be focused within IAM and ensure platform stability, drive operational efficiencies, support incident response activities, and continuously improve service delivery through process optimization, automation, and proactive risk management.
Your Impact:- Lead front-end and full stack architecture for modern enterprise web applications.
- Provide hands-on technical direction to engineers while also personally contributing
- Partner with product owners, business stakeholders, and engineers to convert requirements into clear user journeys and scalable solutions.
- Establish and govern reusable design systems, component libraries, interaction patterns, and front-end engineering standards.
- Create prototypes and be able to translate them into production-quality interfaces using React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS.
- Champion responsive design, usability, and performance.
- Design and integrate REST APIs, services, databases, and enterprise integrations across the full application stack.
- Define clear API contracts, data structures, error-handling patterns, authentication and authorization approaches, and observability requirements.
- Lead architecture reviews, design reviews, code reviews, technical problem solving, and root-cause analysis.
- Promote automated unit, integration, API, UI, accessibility, and end-to-end testing within CI/CD pipelines.
- Mentor engineers, strengthen front-end and full stack capabilities, and establish practical reference patterns the team can reuse.
- Identify and reduce technical debt while balancing delivery commitments, platform standards, security requirements, and long-term maintainability
Qualifications:- Approximately 8 or more years of software engineering experience, including significant full stack application development.
- At least 3 years of experience providing technical leadership for application teams or major engineering initiatives.
- Deep hands-on experience with a modern front-end framework, preferably React and TypeScript.
- Strong knowledge of JavaScript, HTML, CSS, browser architecture, responsive design, and performance optimization.
- Experience creating or extending reusable component libraries and enterprise design systems.
- Demonstrated understanding of UX principles, interaction design, information architecture, usability, and accessible design.
- Strong experience designing, documenting, securing, and consuming RESTful APIs.
- Back-end development experience with Java and Spring Boot, Node.js, or comparable enterprise frameworks.
- Experience with relational databases, Git-based development, automated testing, and CI/CD.
- Strong understanding of secure coding, authentication, authorization, session management, API security, and application logging.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical design discussions, communicate trade-offs, and mentor engineers.
- College degree or equivalent experience; Advanced studies/degree preferred.
Keys to Success in this Role:- Hands-on technical credibility across UI, services, APIs, data, testing, security, and production support.
- Ability to simplify complex user and business workflows without compromising control, security, or maintainability.
- Strong collaboration with product, architecture, information security, infrastructure, and engineering partners.
- Clear communication of technical decisions, dependencies, risks, and trade-offs to both technical and nontechnical audiences.
- A player-coach mindset that combines architecture ownership, coding, mentoring, and delivery accountability.
Current Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site.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 $138,000 - $206,000 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.
