Principal Engineer – Director IC, Exchange Platform, APIs, Files, AI protocols, others

Fannie Mae

Principal Engineer developing technical solutions for housing finance at Fannie Mae. Collaborating across teams to address customer needs and enhance existing systems.

Posted 5/15/2026full-timePlano • Texas, Virginia, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $200,000 - $269,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSJavaPythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Determine the needs of customer groups across multiple projects, programs, or products while identifying and resolving conflicting and/or complementary needs.
Design and develop technical solutions, which include leading matrixed teams.
Apply extensive expertise in process-driven approach in designing solutions.
Oversee the maintenance of existing technical solutions.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8 years of experience
Determining causes of operating errors and taking corrective action
Working with people with different functional expertise respectfully and cooperatively to work toward a common goal
Influencing including negotiating, persuading others, facilitating meetings, and resolving conflict
Product Development including designing products, developing product roadmaps, translating design requirements, prototyping, etc.
Communication including communicating in writing or verbally, copywriting, planning and distributing communication, etc.
Relationship Management including managing and engaging stakeholders, customers, and vendors, building relationship networks, contracting, etc.
Experience helping an organization to plan and manage change in effort to meet strategic objectives
Programming including coding, debugging, and using relevant programming languages
Product Testing including testing and evaluating software, usability testing, UAT, and using relevant product testing technology
Skilled in establishing and maintaining consistency of a product's performance, functional, and physical attributes with its requirements, design, and operational information
Ability to frame ideas as systems and analyzing the inputs, outputs, and process
Skilled in Excel
Skilled in SQL
Skilled in Java
Skilled in Python object-oriented programming
Experience using JIRA
Skilled in AWS Developer tools such as CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodeStar, or CodePipeline

Benefits

Comp & perks

Broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle, and other benefits and perks that enhance an employee's physical, mental, emotional, and financial well-being.

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Hard Skills & Tools

programmingdebuggingproduct developmentproduct testingExcelSQLJavaPython object-oriented programmingAWS Developer toolsprocess-driven approach

Soft Skills

communicationrelationship managementinfluencingnegotiatingpersuadingfacilitating meetingsresolving conflictworking cooperativelymanaging changeengaging stakeholders