Dev Tech Lead

Position Overview:

Are you ready to help build and evolve the next generation of trading technology? We’re looking for a Dev Tech Lead to support the development and enhancement of applications that drive position, risk, and P&L for our trading desks. In this role, you’ll collaborate with engineers and product partners to deliver reliable, high-performance solutions, contribute to modern cloud-based deployments, and help improve the way we build and operate distributed systems. If you’re curious, hands-on, and excited to learn while making an impact in a fast-paced trading environment, we’d love to hear from you.

Our Impact:

The Mercury engineering team delivers a mission‑critical pricing, risk, and P&L platform that underpins Freddie Mac’s capital markets operations. As a Dev Tech Lead, you’ll shape the architecture and reliability of systems that power daily trading decisions, financial reporting, and enterprise risk management at scale.

Your Impact:

You will work with a team to implement the Investments & Capital Markets Business Technology Office (I&CM BTO) - Business Engineering team. You will collaborate closely with the Financial Engineering, Data and Architecture, Enterprise technology teams and business partners.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in software development and engineering
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field
• Strong understanding of fixed income markets, particularly mortgage and debt securities, is highly preferred
• Proficiency in advanced Java and Python and it's object-oriented principles
• Expertise with relational database schema design and maintenance
• Experience in building distributed and scalable trading platforms is preferred
• Experience in building event driven Position, Risk and P&L management system is preferred
• Experience with Agile and Scrum development methodologies
• Familiarity with containerization, microservices, AWS or cloud concepts
• Ability to understand and write code documentation that conveys your solution to others
• Ability to troubleshoot and optimize application for security and responsiveness
• Languages/Frameworks/Tools: Java EE, Spring, Distributed Caching
• Modern Tools: Gradle or Maven, Jenkins, Atlassian Suite (Jira, Bitbucket), Git, Junit or Mockito
• DBs: Relational databases like MS SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Strong hands-on technology, design and implementation skills
• Experience working in fast-paced technical environments to promote agile principles and mindset across the organization.
• Solid understanding of modern software engineering practices and iterative development approaches with an emphasis on Agile.
• Good understanding of mortgage/securitized products to establish credibility with trading desks
• Develop long-term vision and strategy, while also executing and delivering measurable results
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to deliver complex strategic initiatives
• Strong attention to detail, process management, and task ownership
• Operate in a dynamic, rapidly changing business environment and manage multiple tasks
• Identify and escalate risks and impediments effectively

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.