Tech Lead, Agile Developer

Freddie Mac is seeking a Tech Lead to drive technical execution and engineering excellence for one or more agile delivery teams. This role is ideal for a hands-on engineer who partners closely with Development Leads, Product, Architecture, Platform/DevOps, and Security.

You will help teams deliver modern, secure, cloud-based solutions by setting clear technical direction, breaking down complex problems, and ensuring software is built to be resilient, observable, and maintainable in production.

Our Impact:

• Own technical direction for a feature area/service set, aligning implementation to product goals and architectural standards
• Lead design and architecture discussions for cloud-native services, integrations, and distributed systems; document decisions and trade-offs
• Drive technical alignment across developers, QA, product owners, and platform partners within an agile team environment
• Mentor engineers through execution (pairing, code reviews, design feedback) to improve consistency, maintainability, and delivery quality
• Serve as an escalation point for complex technical issues and production defects; lead root-cause analysis and remediation follow-through
• Translate requirements into technical plans (stories, tasks, acceptance criteria, and implementation approach) and help the team deliver iteratively
• Break down ambiguous problems into actionable work, identify dependencies, and proactively manage technical risks
• Promote predictable delivery by improving estimation inputs, reducing rework, and ensuring readiness for sprint execution

Your Impact:

• Champion code quality and standards including secure coding practices, testing discipline, and performance considerations
• Establish and reinforce testing strategies (unit, integration, end-to-end) and ensure automation is built into the SDLC
• Improve reliability and operability by ensuring services include appropriate monitoring, logging, alerting, and runbooks
• Continuously improve development practices through retrospectives, technical debt management, and refactoring plans
• Partner with Platform/DevOps teams to improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, infrastructure-as-code, and developer tooling
• Contribute to cloud architecture on AWS (or similar), ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and cost-aware
• Support production readiness including release planning, change management inputs, and post-deployment validation.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, related field or equivalent work experience
• 8+ years of software engineering experience delivering production-grade applications and services
• Demonstrated experience acting as a technical lead within agile teams (leading design, guiding implementation, and mentoring peers)
• Strong knowledge of modern architectures: microservices, event-driven systems, REST/GraphQL APIs, distributed systems fundamentals
• Cloud experience, particularly AWS (e.g., ECS/EKS, Lambda, EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, IAM, CloudWatch; CloudFormation/CDK/Terraform)
• Strong SDLC skills: CI/CD, automated testing, code reviews, branching strategies, and release practices
• Working knowledge of observability (metrics, logs, traces) and production support practices (incident triage, RCA)
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience modernizing legacy systems and/or supporting cloud migrations
• Familiarity with security and compliance expectations in regulated environments (e.g., data protection, access controls, auditability)
• Experience with multiple languages/frameworks and a "best tool for the job" mindset

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 $154,000 - $230,000 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.

At 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. Continue your career journey where your work contributes to a greater purpose.