Sr. Software Engineer III - Capital Markets Fannie Mae
Herndon, VA

Job Description

THE COMPANY

Fannie Mae provides reliable, large-scale access to affordable mortgage credit in communities across our nation. We are the leading source of funding for housing in America, which means more people can buy or rent a home. We are focused on sustaining the housing recovery, improving our company, and leading change to make housing better.

Join our diverse, high-performing team and make a difference as we work together to enable access to a good home.

For more information about Fannie Mae, visit http://www.fanniemae.com/progress

JOB INFORMATION

Our Capital Markets team in Herndon, VA is looking for a Sr. Software Engineer III that will be part of leading the major modernization of our critical trading MBS portfolio, as well as be part of moving the entire platform to AWS. You will use modern tools, techniques, and methods to develop, modify, or update applications used by business units or infrastructure units. Lead, or play lead technical role in development teams' efforts to determine unit needs and business processes that are automated by the application. Participate in or review all of the steps in the software development life cycle to create and modify the software.

KEY JOB FUNCTIONS

* Work with product owners and other development team members to determine new features and user stories needed in new/revised applications or large/complex development projects.
* Create or Update documentation in support of development efforts. Documents may include detailed specifications, implementation guides, architecture diagrams or design documents.
* Participate in code reviews with peers and managers to ensure that each increment adheres to original vision as described in the user story and all standard resource libraries and architecture patterns as appropriate.
* Respond to trouble/support calls for applications in production in order to make quick repair to keep application in production.
* Serve as a technical lead for an Agile team and actively participate in all Agile ceremonies. Participate in all team ceremonies including planning, grooming, product demonstration and team retrospectives.
* Mentor less experienced technical staff; may use high end development tools to assist or facilitate development process.
* Leverage Fannie Mae DevOps tool stack to build, inspect, deploy, test and promote new or updated features.
* Set up and configure a continuous integration environment.
* Advanced proficiency in unit testing as well as coding in 1-2 languages (e.g. Java, etc).
* Advanced proficiency in Object Oriented Design (OOD) and analysis. Advanced proficiency in application of analysis/design engineering functions. Advanced proficiency in application of non-functional software qualities such as resiliency, maintainability, etc. Advanced proficiency in advanced behavior-driven testing techniques.

EDUCATION

* Bachelor's Degree or equivalent required

MINIMUM EXPERIENCE

* 7 years of related experience

SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

Required Skills

* 7 years of full-stack development using Java, JEE and Spring Framework
* Experience with Spring Core, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Integration and Spring Security
* Good understanding of complex enterprise scale applications that are resilient, high volume/throughput, low latency, transactional, scalable and fault tolerant
* Experience with implementing integration solutions with RESTful Web Services with JWT (JSON Web Tokens)
* Experience in testing automation using Selenium, Cucumber, and JUnit
* Experience with Database development and tools with SQL with additional relational DB knowledge
* Knowledge of UNIX (Linux) environment and scripting (bash, shell and python)
* Experience with Agile Development Methodology

Desired Skills

* Professional experience building, architecting and operating solutions built on public clouds (AWS) and private clouds (VMware) is a plus
* Familiarity with principles of CICD, Blue/Green and DevOps practices & tools would be a plus

EMPLOYMENT

As a condition of employment with Fannie Mae, any successful job applicant will be required to successfully complete a background investigation.

Fannie Mae is an Equal Opportunity Employer.