Vesta

Mortgage Underwriting Specialist

Vesta

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $100,000 - $135,000 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

About the role

  • Owning a home is a huge step in many people’s lives and is part of building financial security and wealth.
  • Work closely with product, engineering, design, partnerships, and implementations teams across mission critical projects.
  • Become a Vesta product expert, deeply understanding all functionality in the product.
  • Diligently document test cases with a high attention to detail.
  • Work with our partner integrations team to help map data across platforms and configure and test our integrations.
  • Partner with our customer implementation team to create canonical configuration around all aspects of loan fulfillment workflows.
  • Stay in lock step with our engineering, product, design, and partner teams, keeping them updated on testing and integration status.
  • Be an indispensable part of delivering industry-changing software to our customers!

Requirements

  • You have **5+ years of mortgage underwriting experience** across several mortgage types (e.g. conventional, FHA, VA, non-QM).
  • You are **technically inclined and a quick learner**. An understanding of APIs, familiarity with MISMO and XML, and experience with tools like Postman a plus, but not required as long as you have a **willingness to learn**.
  • You are curious and hungry to identify, triage, and help solve any problem you come across, big or small, and you’re excited to apply your depth of knowledge across a variety of projects.
  • You are a self starter and team player who’s comfortable flexing across a variety of problems and you do so while keeping an eye towards detail and executing with precision.
  • You're looking to join an early-stage team to build something BIG, something industry-changing, and you’re excited about being part of that quickly-moving, fast-growing journey.
Benefits
  • Robust medical, vision, & dental coverage (~100% of employee premiums are covered)
  • 401(K) plan offering
  • Meaningful parental leave - 16 weeks fully paid for all new parents, birthing & non-birthing parents (applies to adoptions as well!)
  • Remote-first culture with hubs in New York & San Francisco
  • Generous WFH & Wellness Benefits
  • Monthly Doordash benefits
  • Open & encouraged flexible time off
  • Company offsites to get to know the team!

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
mortgage underwritingAPIsMISMOXMLtest case documentationdata mappingloan fulfillment workflows
Soft skills
attention to detailcuriosityproblem-solvingself-starterteam playerflexibilityexecution with precision