Principal Engineer (Director IC), Exchange Platform (APIs, Files, AI protocols, and others)

Skip to main content

When you visit any website, it may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. This information might be about you, your preferences or your device and is mostly used to make the site work as you expect it and to help give you a more personalized web experience. Because we respect your right to privacy, you can choose not to allow some types of cookies. Click on the different category headings to find out more and change our default settings. However, blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience on the site and the services we are able to offer.

Privacy Notice

Decline

Accept Cookies

Principal Engineer (Director IC), Exchange Platform (APIs, Files, AI protocols, and others) page is loaded

Principal Engineer (Director IC), Exchange Platform (APIs, Files, AI protocols, and others)

Apply

remote typeOnsite

locationsPlano, TXReston, VAWashington, DC

time typeFull time

posted onPosted 30+ Days Ago

job requisition idJR597

Playing an essential role in the U.S. economy, Fannie Mae is foundational to housing finance. Here, your expertise can help fuel purpose-driven innovation that expands access to homeownership and affordable rental housing across the country. Join Fannie Mae to grow your career and help people find a place to call home.

Job Description

As a valued contributor to our team, you will provide expert advice to the team and participate in designing, developing, testing, and/or maintaining hardware, technology, and/or processes.

THE Impact YOU Will Make

The Principal Engineer (Director IC), Exchange Platform (APIs, Files, AI protocols, and others) 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:

• 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.

THE Experience YOU Bring TO THE Team

Minimum Required Experiences

• 8 years

Skills

• 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

• Shows curiosity and adaptability in learning and responsibly applying new technologies, including artificial intelligence, to reimagine how we work.

Tools

• 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

Desired Experiences

• Bachelor degree or equivalent

• Deep understanding of API lifecycle: design, versioning, security, throttling, analytics.

• Experience with API management platforms (Preferably Google Apigee OPDK and GCP, Google Apigee Hybrid).

• Knowledge of OpenAPI/Swagger, GraphQL, and RESTful principles.

• Deep understanding of OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS, API key management.

• Deep understanding of Load balancing, caching strategies, High availability, and disaster recovery design.

• Experience in gathering industry best practices, trends and formulating roadmaps and white papers

Target Pay Range: $200,000.00 - $269,000.00 a year

Internal Job Title: Digital Engineering - Engineering - Principal

#LI-JM1 #LI-Onsite

Qualifications

• Education:

• Bachelor's Level Degree (Required)

• The future is what you make it to be. Discover compelling opportunities at Fanniemae.com/careers.

• 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.

Requisition compensation:

200000

to

269000

Why work here?

Tackle America’s biggest housing challenges using the latest technology and AI, while collaborating with experts in their fields. Join our energizing environment—you’re invited to apply.

Stay Up to Date

Join our talent community to be the first to hear about happenings at Fannie Mae and share your experience to hear about potential job opportunities for you.

Get Started

About Us

As a Fortune 25 company, Fannie Mae expands access to housing across America. Powered by the latest tech and AI, our innovative products and services drive the mortgage industry forward. We believe that prioritizing our people’s growth and success is essential to achieving our business goals and fulfilling our purpose.

Read More

Follow Us

• Glassdoor
• X
• LinkedIn

Privacy

© 2026 Workday, Inc. All rights reserved.