Mortgage Underwriter (India)

The Homeward Mortgage Team is responsible for conducting the financial review and approval of every customer that works with Homeward. We’re focused on bringing financial innovations to life and delivering a seamlessly integrated mortgage experience. We are the newest team at Homeward and are looking for subject matter experts and business people with an entrepreneur’s mindset and ability to get stuff done.

 

As part of the team, you’ll be ensuring that we work with high-qualified customers meeting Homeward’s eligibility criteria. Your role is to support the optimization of our mortgage underwriting policies and procedures to ensure we originate high-quality loans that conform to investor and internal requirements. This position will challenge your ability to establish and implement complex operational processes while working cross-functionally with other critical teams including product, engineering, and customer experience among others.

 

Note: This role has 2 available shifts Tuesday-Saturday or Sunday-Thursday. Shift will be decided as per the business requirements.

In this role you will:

• Underwrite agency conforming and jumbo residential mortgage loans
• Contributing to the ground-up build out of our mortgage origination process
• Collaborating with internal teams to creatively solution for challenging underwriting scenarios
• Take initiative in process improvement.
• Proactive communication with internal and external stakeholders to ensure clear expectations
• Shaping Homeward’s transaction eligibility requirements and related underwriting processes

What you’ll bring:

• 3+ years of experience underwriting FNMA, FHLMC, FHA, VA, and Non-Conforming (Jumbo) mortgages
• Extensive experience in the retail mortgage space
• Expert knowledge of Desktop Underwriter (DU) and purchase mortgage underwriting
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high production environment
• The drive to build something new
• Knowledge of Cash offer product will be an added advantage

  About Homeward

  Buying a home should be an exciting milestone. But all too often, it’s stressful, especially in a competitive market or when you’re buying and selling at the same time. So we’re redesigning the homebuying experience. We’re a fast-paced real estate startup that empowers agents to help homebuyers buy with cash. We buy homes on behalf of our partners’ clients with our cash, then the client buys the home back from us.

  Founder and CEO Tim Heyl, a 10-year industry veteran and owner of one of the fastest-growing agent teams in the country, started Homeward in 2018. In fact, he bought our first customer’s home with his own life savings. Today we offer two services — Buy with cash and Buy before you sell.

  We’ve raised more than $160MM in equity capital from top-tier venture investors, including Norwest, Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, Adams Street, Javelin, and LiveOak. Our leadership team includes experts from the real estate, mortgage, and technology industries.