Senior Manager, Underwriting

SoFi SoFi · Fintech · Frisco, TX · Home Loans Ops Production

SoFi is seeking a Senior Manager, Underwriting to lead their home lending team in Frisco, TX. This role involves recruiting, onboarding, and managing underwriters for various mortgage products, ensuring quality and accuracy in decisions. The manager will also influence the technology roadmap and manage digital tools to streamline the underwriting process, partnering with product and engineering teams. The role requires extensive mortgage underwriting and leadership experience, knowledge of regulations, and technical proficiency with systems like Encompass.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build and Lead: Recruit, onboard, and mentor an underwriting team, fostering a high-performance culture that aligns with SoFi’s values and behavioral expectations.
  2. Strategic Oversight: Manage the underwriting lifecycle for a diverse product suite to ensure every decision meets quality and accuracy standards.
  3. Authority and Calibration: Establish and allocate underwriting authority levels for staff, while personally providing expert review and approval for highly complex or high-exposure cases.
  4. Performance Optimization: Train and coach the team to consistently exceed production and quality goals, utilizing data-driven insights to balance industry-leading speed and precision.
  5. Tech Roadmap Influence: Partner with product and engineering teams to influence the technology roadmap, adopting and managing the digital tools necessary to automate and streamline the underwriting process.

Skills

Required

  • mortgage underwriting experience
  • leading Mortgage Underwriting Teams
  • underwriting jumbo, high net work, and complex credits
  • Knowledge of federal, state, and FDIC real estate regulations and statutes
  • Comprehensive knowledge of mortgage products, services, and industry trends.
  • Excellent written, spoken, active listening, and interpersonal communication skills
  • Strong motivation and management skills
  • Critical decision-making skills and sound judgment
  • Technical proficiency with computer systems including Encompass and Microsoft Office applications
  • Effective time management skills

What the JD emphasized

  • 8+ years of mortgage underwriting experience.
  • 5+ years of experience in leading Mortgage Underwriting Teams.
  • Knowledge of federal, state, and FDIC real estate regulations and statutes
  • Comprehensive knowledge of mortgage products, services, and industry trends.