Freddie Mac

Senior Software Development Engineer

Freddie Mac$130K — $196K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of related experience required
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent; advanced degree preferred
  • Proficient in Java frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate
  • Skilled in automation testing tools like Junit
  • Experienced with DevOps tools including Docker and Jenkins
  • Familiarity with Python/SAS is a plus
  • Preferably has experience in financial modeling and fixed income securities

Responsibilities

  • Automate and deploy financial models using machine learning algorithms
  • Maintain and process credit data for underwriting models
  • Deploy market data configurations for loss mitigation models
  • Provide APIs for integrating financial models with IT applications
  • Perform performance tuning and stress testing on models
  • Participate in model reconciliation processes and troubleshoot discrepancies
  • Review code and mentor junior developers

Benefits

  • Comprehensive total rewards package
  • Competitive compensation
  • Market-leading benefit programs
Full Job Description
Position Overview:

Are you looking to be part of a technology team beyond the ordinary? A place full of exciting challenges and the engineers up to solving them? Then welcome to Financial Engineering!

This is the place where the model's become software, where many of the numbers that drive our business decisions are produced. Our systems are used for interest rate and credit risk management, investment analysis and trading, security issuance, automated loan underwriting, distressed loan decisions, economic and regulatory capital, property valuation, financial reporting, economic and GAAP forecasting, and more!

If you have finance and/or technology background, experience with critical applications, and thrive on ensuring operational excellence, apply for a Senior Software Development Engineer position in Model Applications Development team.

Our Impact:

Model Application Development team is responsible for converting models to application software. We evaluate millions of loans per day using the latest ML algorithms such as Deep Neural Networks, XG boost and Logistic regression. We turn ML algorithms to APIs using web services. We are responsible for implementing underwriting, servicing and loss mitigation models.

Your Impact:
  • Automating and deploying Financial Models developed using ML algorithms.
  • Maintaining underwriting models, credit data processing.
  • Deploying model configuration with market and economic data for loss mitigation models.
  • Providing APIs to Financial Models to integrate with IT applications.
  • Performance tuning and stress testing Models.
  • Participating in model tie outs. Identifying and resolving any issues in reconciling with model results.
  • Fixing software security vulnerabilities identified in SAST and FOSS scanning.
  • Code review and guiding junior level developers.


Qualifications:
  • Experience: 5 - 7 years related experience is required
  • College Degree or equivalent experience; advanced studies/degree preferred
  • Back End Skills: Java - Spring, Spring Boot, Camel, Hibernate, etc., Relational Database
  • Automation Testing: Junit, Automated Performance and Regression/Functional Testing
  • DevOps Tools: Git, Gradle, Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes, OCP, CI/CD pipeline
  • Programming Languages: Familiarity with Python/SAS is preferred
  • Experience in Financial industry with Modeling and Simulations is preferred
  • Knowledge on Fixed income securities is preferred


Keys to Success in this Role:
  • You must be model thinker and willing to learn Financial Models. Should be passionate about finding facts through data analysis.
  • Communication and social skills working in a collaborative team and interacting with business customers.
  • Bringing an analytical and imaginative attitude to work every day.
  • Steadfast attention to business and technical details.
  • Passion to ensure customer happiness and improve processes.


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 $130,000 - $196,000 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.

About Freddie Mac

Freddie Mac is vital to a strong U.S. housing system, providing liquidity to the mortgage market under all economic conditions while ensuring the safety and soundness. As a trusted leader in housing finance, we guide the industry in meeting the needs of lenders and lowering the cost of housing for America's families.
Learn more about Freddie Mac
Size
7,284 employees
Industry
Founded
1970
NASDAQ

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