Job Description
Job Description
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Position Summary:
We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to help design, build, and evolve mello®, loanDepot’s flagship digital mortgage platform. This role focuses on building high-quality, scalable web and application experiences while leveraging modern engineering practices and AI-assisted tooling to increase velocity and reliability. You’ll play a key role in shaping technical designs, delivering complex features, and mentoring peers—while remaining hands-on and deeply engaged in day-to-day development.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with Product Owners to translate user stories into technical designs, estimates, and clean implementations.
- Build and maintain modern, responsive, high-performance UIs using Angular (preferred) or React.
- Contribute across web, mobile, and desktop applications in a large enterprise environment.
- Lead technical design on moderately complex features and user stories, engaging Architecture, Data, and Security teams as needed.
- Write well-structured, maintainable code with testability and performance as core principles.
- Leverage AI-assisted and agentic development tools to accelerate coding, refactoring, testing, and documentation.
- Actively participate in code reviews and design discussions, raising quality and consistency across the team.
- Ensure solutions follow security best practices, particularly around customer and financial data.
- Assist in diagnosing and resolving production issues, contributing to root-cause analysis and long-term fixes.
- Mentor junior engineers and help reinforce engineering best practices.
Requirements:
- Frontend & Application Development
- Strong experience building single-page applications using Angular (preferred) or React.
- Solid understanding of responsive CSS design and UI frameworks such as Tailwind, Bootstrap, or Foundation.
- Experience with state management libraries (NgRx, Redux, Akita, or similar).
- Working knowledge of RxJS, Observables, and async programming patterns in Angular.
- Engineering Practices
- Demonstrated commitment to code quality, including unit testing, code reviews, and clean design.
- Experience designing applications suitable for CI/CD pipelines, with clear dependency boundaries.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted / agentic tooling for software development (e.g., code generation, test creation, refactoring assistance).
- Platform & Cloud
- Experience developing and deploying applications on Microsoft Azure, including:
- Azure Functions
- Azure Storage (Blobs)
- Azure Service Bus
- API Management
- Service Fabric
- Power Automate
- Dynamics 365
- Full-stack experience with Microsoft technologies (Visual Studio, SQL Server) is a plus.
- Experience & Background
- Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
- 5+ years of professional experience building enterprise-grade applications.
- Experience in mortgage, fintech, or loan servicing platforms (e.g., Empower) is a plus.
- Employees located within a commutable distance of our hub offices (Irvine, Scottsdale, Chandler, Southfield, or Plano) are expected to work on-site four days per week.
Why work for #teamloanDepot:
- Work with other passionate, purposeful, and customer-centric team members.
- Inclusive, diverse, and collaborative culture where people from all backgrounds can thrive.
- Extensive internal growth and professional development opportunities including tuition reimbursement.
- Comprehensive benefits package including Medical/Dental/Vision.
- Wellness program to support both mental and physical health.
- Generous paid time off options to support work-life balance.
About loanDepot:
loanDepot (NYSE: LDI) is a digital commerce company committed to serving its customers throughout the home ownership journey. Since its launch in 2010, loanDepot has revolutionized the mortgage industry with a digital-first approach that makes it easier, faster, and less stressful to purchase or refinance a home. Today, loanDepot enables customers to achieve the American dream of homeownership through a broad suite of lending and real estate services that simplify one of life's most complex transactions. With headquarters in Southern California and offices nationwide, loanDepot is committed to serving the communities in which its team lives and works through a variety of local, regional, and national philanthropic efforts.
Base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay for this role is between $138,000 and $190,500. Your base pay will depend on multiple individualized factors, including your job-related knowledge/skills, qualifications, experience, and market location.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
loanDepot, America's lender, matches borrowers through technology and high-touch customer care with the credit they need to fuel their lives. As a fast-growing national consumer lender, the loanDepot platform is disrupting finance by dissolving the lines between mortgage and nonmortgage credit.
The company has funded over $100 billion in loans since inception, and is passionate about emerging financial technology and dynamic product delivery supported by excellent customer service to empower consumers.
Headquartered in Southern California, loanDepot employs 5,400+ lending professionals across the country including 1,700+ licensed loan officers who hold 10,000+ licenses. The company operates 180+ local loan locations nationwide. NMLS # 174457
Company Description
loanDepot, America's lender, matches borrowers through technology and high-touch customer care with the credit they need to fuel their lives. As a fast-growing national consumer lender, the loanDepot platform is disrupting finance by dissolving the lines between mortgage and nonmortgage credit.\r\n\r\nThe company has funded over $100 billion in loans since inception, and is passionate about emerging financial technology and dynamic product delivery supported by excellent customer service to empower consumers.\r\n\r\nHeadquartered in Southern California, loanDepot employs 5,400+ lending professionals across the country including 1,700+ licensed loan officers who hold 10,000+ licenses. The company operates 180+ local loan locations nationwide. NMLS # 174457
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Long Beach, CA |
| Industry | Financial Services |
| Salary | $138,000–$190,500 Per Year |
| Company Size | 5,000 to 9,999 employees |
| Year Founded | 2010 |
| Website | https://www.loandepot.com/ |
Benefits
Employee Referral Program, Employee Events, Game Rooms, Life Insurance, Merchandise Discounts, Military Leave, On Site Cafeteria, Parking, Prescription Drug Coverage, Professional Development, 401K, Concierge Services
About Company
loanDepot, America's lender, matches borrowers through technology and high-touch customer care with the credit they need to fuel their lives. As a fast-growing national consumer lender, the loanDepot platform is disrupting finance by dissolving the lines between mortgage and nonmortgage credit. The company has funded over $150 billion in fundings since inception, and is passionate about emerging financial technology and dynamic product delivery supported by excellent customer service to empower consumers. Headquartered in Southern California, loanDepot employs 6,400 team members across the country including 2,000+ licensed loan officers who hold more than 10,000 licenses. The company operates 150+ local loan locations nationwide.
Skills
- Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
- Best Practicesunmatched
- Bootstrapunmatched
- CSS (Cascading Style Sheet)unmatched
- Cloud Computingunmatched
- Code Reviewsunmatched
- Consumer Loansunmatched
- Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
- Continuous Integrationunmatched
- Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
- Desktop PCunmatched
- Diversityunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- Emerging Technologyunmatched
- Financeunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Information/Data Security (InfoSec)unmatched
- Internet Applicationunmatched
- Loan Servicingunmatched
- Loansunmatched
- Machine Toolunmatched
- Mentoringunmatched
- Microsoft SQL Serverunmatched
- Microsoft Visual Studiounmatched
- Microsoft Windows Azureunmatched
- Mobile Applicationsunmatched
- Mortgageunmatched
- Mortgage Lendingunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Product Supportunmatched
- Programming Toolsunmatched
- React.jsunmatched
- Refactoringunmatched
- Root Cause Analysisunmatched
- Software Designunmatched
- Software Developmentunmatched
- Software Engineeringunmatched
- State Libraryunmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
- Technical Deliveryunmatched
- Technical Leadershipunmatched
- Technical/Engineering Designunmatched
- Test Plan/Scheduleunmatched
- Testabilityunmatched
- Tuition Reimbursementunmatched
- Unit Testunmatched
- User Interface Designunmatched
- User Interface/Experience (UI/UX)unmatched
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