Lead Full Stack Software Engineer

At Fannie Mae, the inspiring work we do helps make a home a possibility for millions of homeowners and renters. Every day offers compelling opportunities to impact the future of the housing industry while being part of a collaborative team thriving in an energizing environment. Here, you will grow your career and help create access to affordable housing finance.

Job Description

As a valued colleague on our team, you will act as a team lead in the designing, producing, testing, or implementing software, technology, or processes, as well as lead processes for creating and maintaining IT architecture, large scale data stores, and cloud-based systems.

As a valued colleague on our team, you will act as a team lead in the designing, producing, testing, or implementing software, technology, or processes, as well as lead processes for creating and maintaining IT architecture, large scale data stores, and cloud-based systems.

THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE
The SF Technology - Software Engineering - Lead Associate role will offer you the flexibility to make each day your own, while working alongside people who care so that you can deliver on the following responsibilities:

• Support Fannie Mae mission to make homeownership accessible and sustainable for all Americans.

• Applying advanced skill, knowledge and experience, design and develop software solutions to meet customer needs in support of the Desktop Underwriter platform.

• Help organization adopt emerging technologies and innovations.

• Help organization strengthening readiness and operability while staying ahead of risk.

THE EXPERIENCE YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

Required Experience

• Software Development:

  • At least 4 years of extensive hands-on experience in Java development, including designing, implementing, and maintaining Java enterprise applications.

  • Proficiency in multiple programming languages such as Python, C#, SQL, JavaScript, or Angular

  • Experience managing and resolving cyber vulnerabilities 

  • Experience with Application Performance Management and Observability 

  • Proficiency in using debugging tools and optimizing application performance.

  • Experience in conducting code reviews and ensuring adherence to coding standards and best practices

  • Deep understanding of the full software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to deployment and maintenance

• AWS Cloud Technologies:

  • Strong skills in system design and architecture, ensuring scalable and resilient solutions

  • At least 4 years in software engineering using AWS cloud infrastructure writing applications with AWS service APIs, AWS CLI, using SDKs and using containers

• Leadership Skills:

  • Proven experience in leading and managing development teams, including task assignment and progress monitoring.

  • Experience building effective relationships with technical and business stakeholders.

  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders

  • Experience mentoring and coaching junior engineers

• Application Operations and Support: 

  • Experience with application production / operations support, including incident response, problem management, runbooks, and knowledge articles

Desired Experience

• Bachelor’s or Masters’ degree in computer science, Management Information Systems (MIS), Systems Engineering, or related field

• 8 years of extensive hands-on experience in Java development, including designing, implementing, and maintaining Java enterprise applications.

• Certification in AWS Solutions Architect

• Certification in AWS Developer

• Certification in AWS Security Specialist

• Sun Certified Java Developer

• Experienced in application monitoring / observability, including building dashboards, establishing service level indicators / objectives / agreements (SLIs / SLOs / SLAs), and logging / tracing 

• CICD and DevOps experience building and managing pipelines

Experience in Technical Resiliency strategies  and infrastructure design

Skills

• Highly skilled in programming in Java and Python with a deep understanding J2EE frameworks, such as Springboot / Spring Cloud, and REST

• Skilled in AWS cloud applications and technologies, including containerization, virtualization, microservices, and server-less architecture in tools

• Excellent problem-solving skills and proactivity in resolving issues / blockers

• Excellent verbal / written communication skills, relationship management skills, and ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders

• Skilled in unit, integration, functional, and performance testing strategies and tools

• Skilled in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Agile methodology

• Understanding of fault tolerant / resilience architectural design patterns, such as Circuit-breaker, Retry, and Timeout configurations.

• Ability to create automation solutions using tools such as Selenium

Tools & Processes

• AWS (ECS, EC2, RDS, Dynamo, Glue, Kinesis, EMR, Lambda, Route 53)

• Programming using Python/Java

• DevOps - Infrastructure as Code, CICD - Jenkins, GitLab, Terraform 

• Application monitoring and instrumentation Open Telemetry, Dynatrace, LoadRunner

• Jira

• Confluence

• Splunk

• Sonarqube

Qualifications

Education:

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For most roles, employees are expected to work onsite on a regular basis at their designated office location. In-office work cadence is determined by your manager. Proximity within a reasonable commute to your designated office location is preferred unless the job is noted as open to remote.

Fannie Mae is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity/gender expression, marital or parental status, or any other protected factor. Fannie Mae is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities who are employees or applicants for employment, unless to do so would cause undue hardship to the company. If you need assistance using our online system and/or you need a reasonable accommodation related to the hiring/application process, please complete this form.

The hiring range for this role is set forth below. Final salaries will generally vary within that range based on factors that include but are not limited to, skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and other relevant qualifications. This position is eligible to participate in a Fannie Mae incentive program (subject to the terms of the program). As part of our comprehensive benefits package, Fannie Mae offers a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle, and other benefits and perks that enhance an employee's physical, mental, emotional, and financial well-being. See more here.

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