# Technical Oversight - Underwriting
**Company:** [Pylon](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/pylon)
**Location:** Remote
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Underwriting Systems, Mortgage Origination, Regulatory Compliance, SOPs, Slas, Quality Control, Workflow Development, Fintech Platforms
**Posted:** 2026-02-26
> Oversees third-party fulfillment providers and develops underwriting workflows, SOPs, and quality controls for compliant, scalable mortgage origination. Requires 10+ years in underwriting across loan types and expertise in regulated fintech environments.
## Job Description
## Key Responsibilities
- Develop and implement underwriting workflows, SOPs, SLAs, checklists, and QC measures to ensure high-quality and efficient loan underwriting.
- Regularly access and enhance our Underwriting Systems to ensure smooth file flow, high quality, regulatory compliance and efficiency.
- Oversee day-to-day operations with fulfillment partners, ensuring consistent loan delivery.
- Define and monitor productivity standards and performance goals and ensure that they are met on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis.
- Conducting 2nd level reviews, handling exceptions, and managing escalations to ensure quality control.
- Act as a subject matter expert, aiding decision-making and driving product improvement.
- Working closely with internal teams, partners, and engineering to drive product improvements and optimize the fulfillment infrastructure.
- Provide technical and guideline training, recommend areas of improvement, and conduct ongoing training as needed.
- Maintain a comprehensive understanding of mortgage origination and regulations to ensure compliance.

## About You
- Possess expert-level knowledge of the entire mortgage lending process, detailed underwriting knowledge specific to loan requirements and comprehensive understanding of federal, state, and regulatory guidelines related to residential mortgage lending.
- You are a visionary leader with a clear perspective on building scalable, modular origination infrastructure.
- Comfortable operating in highly regulated industry whilst optimizing for performance. You build with a compliance first lens, respect regulations, continuously review, and update processes as needed.
- Obsess over the customer and uphold the highest standard. You build for our customers and their borrowers, doing whatever it takes to make them successful on the platform.
- Adhere to a scalable software first approach, operational workaround last. You surface issues, lead discussions around long-term solutions, document them, and manage temporary manual workarounds if needed.
- Ability to oversee numerous 3rd party fulfillment partners, ensuring high quality, on-time originations. You build deep relationships and drive consistent results.
- Have strong, principled opinions that you’re willing to defend. We have a culture of vigorous discussion and debate on decisions. We’ll push you to articulate your choices, and defend them where necessary.
- Have great ideas, and lots of them. You should see opportunities all around you to make the product and team better. We’ll provide the environment to act on those ideas.

## Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in underwriting and managing underwriting teams across diverse loan types, including Conventional, Jumbo, NON-QM, GOVT across purchase and refinance.
- Proven track record in developing underwriting workflows, SOPs, SLAs,and QC measures.
- Proficiency in configuring Underwriting Systems for efficiency,quality and compliance.
- Proven track record in managing and leading de-centralized underwriting teams.
- Experience in the management of strategic 3rd party fulfillment partners.
- Experience working on mortgage products within a fintech environment is strongly preferred.

## Benefits
- Ownership: Meaningful early-stage equity in Pylon.
- Healthcare: Top-tier medical, vision & dental with support for dependents.
- 401(k): Ability to save for your future.
- Flexible Time Off: Be on when you’re on and off when you’re off.
- Hardware Allowance: $2,000 to fix up your workspace.
- Annual Off-sites: Fully paid for team off-sites in beautiful corners of the world.
- At-cost Mortgages: We’ll help you finance your next home when you’re ready.
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