Mortgage Underwriter – Remote

Who We Are
We’re building the future of real estate — today.
HomeLight is the essential technology platform used by hundreds of thousands of homebuyers and sellers to partner with top real estate agents and win at any step of the real estate journey, whether that’s finding a top agent, securing a competitive mortgage, or ensuring on-time, easy close.
HomeLight facilitates billions of dollars of real estate on its platform every year.

Our vision is a world where every real estate transaction is simple, certain, and satisfying for all.
We pride ourselves on our company culture – but don’t just take it from us.

We’ve been recognized as a best place to work by Forbes.

We’re committed to diversity both internally and externally through programs such as our Black Real Estate Agent Program with NAREB.

Our team breaks barriers every day while staying committed to HomeLight’s goals and core values, which is a crucial element to our shared success.
Who You Are
You are an experienced Mortgage Underwriter who cares deeply about improving your own quality of life at work, and believe technology can make mortgage underwriting more satisfying and fulfilling.

You thrive on continuous improvement, rely heavily on feedback and have a developed keen listening sense.

You believe that most problems should be solved using technology or smarter processes.

You are a prolific and effective team member.
What You’ll Do
HomeLight Home Loans is looking for a Mortgage Loan Underwriter who can perform the underwriting function and govern a pipeline as the business scales from originating a handful of loans to $100 Million per month of Jumbo QM within a year.
Handle the underwriting of Jumbo and Super Jumbo loans for HomeLight Home Loans Operations going from launch to 60/70 loans per month
Assist in recruiting excellent team members who want to operate and supervise our automated software platform
Be a core member of a team that is innovative and passionate about changing the mortgage world forever
Execute the underwriting function by supplementing the system with interventions, clearing flags, and applying rules that the system has not yet been trained to apply
Anticipate problems and focus on prevention
Identify bottlenecks and software or process solutions that will prevent these from happening again
Work closely with the Origination Operations manager and Mortgage Platform lead in specifying system requirements to get the system to perform recurring process steps or requirements to fix problems and improve efficiency
Ensure mortgages produced by Home Loans have no unresolved underwriting or collateral errors
What You Bring

Experience with underwriting with traditional and non-traditional mortgage lenders.
Experience underwriting and/or signing authority for conforming, jumbo, and super jumbo loans up to 2MM at a non-bank mortgage lender or a federally chartered bank.
Experience surfacing errors and mistakes before loan consummation.
Exceptional communication skills; providing feedback and surfacing things that are wrong and rightfully focus on improvement.
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