Freddie Mac is hiring a hands-on Full Stack Tech Lead to help design and deliver modern enterprise web applications for Identity and Access Management. This onsite role in Dallas, TX combines technical leadership with direct contribution across front-end architecture, accessibility, REST integrations, testing, deployment, and production support.
In this position, you will guide engineering practices end to end, from translating requirements into user-centered journeys to defining API contracts and production-ready solutions that support platform stability and operational efficiency.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead front-end and full stack architecture for modern enterprise web applications.
- Provide hands-on technical direction while contributing directly to engineering work.
- Partner with product owners, business stakeholders, and engineers to translate requirements into clear user journeys and scalable solutions.
- Establish and govern reusable design systems, component libraries, interaction patterns, and front-end engineering standards.
- Create prototypes and turn them into production-quality interfaces using React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS.
- Champion responsive design, usability, and performance.
- Design and integrate REST APIs, services, databases, and enterprise integrations across the full application stack.
- Define API contracts, data structures, error-handling patterns, authentication and authorization approaches, and observability requirements.
- Lead architecture reviews, design reviews, code reviews, technical problem solving, and root-cause analysis.
- Promote automated unit, integration, API, UI, accessibility, and end-to-end testing within CI/CD pipelines.
- Mentor engineers, strengthen front-end and full stack capabilities, and establish practical reference patterns the team can reuse.
- Identify and reduce technical debt while balancing delivery commitments, platform standards, security requirements, and long-term maintainability.
Required Qualifications
- Approximately 8 or more years of software engineering experience, including significant full stack application development.
- At least 3 years providing technical leadership for application teams or major engineering initiatives.
- Deep hands-on experience with a modern front-end framework, preferably React and TypeScript.
- Strong knowledge of JavaScript, HTML, CSS, browser architecture, responsive design, and performance optimization.
- Experience creating or extending reusable component libraries and enterprise design systems.
- Demonstrated understanding of UX principles, interaction design, information architecture, usability, and accessible design.
- Strong experience designing, documenting, securing, and consuming RESTful APIs.
- Back-end development experience with Java and Spring Boot, Node.js, or comparable enterprise frameworks.
- Experience with relational databases, Git-based development, automated testing, and CI/CD.
- Strong understanding of secure coding, authentication, authorization, session management, API security, and application logging.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical design discussions, communicate trade-offs, and mentor engineers.
- College degree or equivalent experience; advanced studies/degree preferred.
Technologies
- React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS
- REST APIs
- Java, Spring Boot, Node.js
- Relational databases
- Git, CI/CD
- Unit testing, integration testing, API testing, UI testing, accessibility testing, end-to-end testing
- Authentication, authorization, session management, application logging
Role Context and Team Impact
The Identity and Access Management team is part of Freddie Mac’s Enterprise Business Technology Operation (BTO) organization. The Enterprise Business Technology Operation provides IT strategic services, including software development, enhancements, and production support for Enterprise groups such as External Relations and Corporate Communications, Finance, Human Resources, Internal Audit, Legal, Operational Resilience, and Regulatory Affairs.
This role focuses on IAM and will support platform stability, drive operational efficiencies, participate in incident response activities, and improve service delivery through process optimization, automation, and proactive risk management.
What Success Looks Like
- Hands-on technical credibility across UI, services, APIs, data, testing, security, and production support.
- Ability to simplify complex user and business workflows without compromising control, security, or maintainability.
- Strong collaboration with product, architecture, information security, infrastructure, and engineering partners.
- Clear communication of technical decisions, dependencies, risks, and trade-offs to technical and nontechnical audiences.
- A player-coach mindset that combines architecture ownership, coding, mentoring, and delivery accountability.
Compensation and Employment Details
- Location: Dallas, TX (onsite)
- Salary: USD 138,000 - 206,000 per year
- FLSA Status: Exempt
- Time Type: Full time
Benefits
- Comprehensive total rewards package
- Competitive compensation
- Market-leading benefit programs
- Annual incentive program
Additional Notes
- Freddie Mac partners with BountyJobs for contingency search business through outside firms. Resumes received outside the BountyJobs system will be considered unsolicited, and Freddie Mac will not be obligated to pay a placement fee. Learn more at www.BountyJobs.com and register using referral code: MAC.
- Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
- A safe and secure environment is critical to Freddie Mac’s business, including employee commitment to acceptable use policy, vigilance-first approach, support of regulatory mandates, and best practices to protect Freddie Mac from potential threats and risk.
