Job Description

When you can find a greater purpose in your work, your potential is limitless. That’s the mindset that drives our team at Homepoint, as we strive to support the American dream of financially healthy, happy homeownership.

Homepoint is one of the fastest-growing mortgage lenders in the U.S. – already the third-largest wholesale lender and a Top-10 correspondent lender. Founded in 2015, we are headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI and offer positions throughout the nation – many of which are remote. Our team has grown to include more than 3,500 associates and we service more than 400,000 customers nationwide. 

If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and are looking for an opportunity to grow and develop your career, then we have the perfect opportunity for you! 

Position Summary: 

The role of the Lead UI Engineer is to build and provide ownership over user-driven, high-quality, innovative, and high-performance web applications that complies with coding standards and best practices.  As a lead engineer, you will also contribute to software design, continuous improvement initiatives, technical guidance, coaching and mentoring. 

Responsibilities: 

Accountable for the management of 3-4 software engineers specializing in UI development.
Work in an Agile Scrum environment, focusing on sustainable development of high performance scalable, and maintainable enterprise solutions. 
This person is a hands-on leader who works with cross-functional teams to understand customer needs, establish design practices, develop concept models, user interface sketches, and guides team members to successfully deliver products and services. 
Participate in design discussions around architecture and business requirements with the Lead Engineer, architects, product owners, and business analysts.??Work with an undefined and unbounded problem to produce scalable solutions. 
Be a great team player, experienced in working with agile teams. Ability to collaborate closely with developers, copywriters and UX designers. 
Create, improve and use wireframes, prototypes, style guides, user flows, and effectively communicate your interaction ideas using any of these methods. 
Present and defend your design decisions. All your design decisions should be based on the overall design roadmap as well as your own design thinking and fundamental principles 
Produce clean, scalable, modular, well-structured, and testable code 
Build and help maintain reusable components & libraries 
Influence application architecture and development processes 
Continually keep yourself and your design team updated with the latest changes in your industry’s standards. 

Qualifications: 

Demonstrated more than a year managing, mentoring and delegating tasks to software engineers specializing in UI development.
Significant experience in software development delivering solutions into production and a track record of getting stuff done. 
Self-motivating, self-directing, a great communicator, and a desire to take personal responsibility to complete tasks and solve problems. 
Prior enterprise-level development and lifecycle experience.??Experienced in working on large enterprise, high-availability, software products before. 
React/Angular/Vue or similar framework 
JavaScript, TypeScript, ES6, HTML5, CSS, LESS, SASS 
Familiar with CSS preprocessors, webpack, JSX, and NextJS 
Formatting - ESlint, Stylelint or similar  
Automated Testing - Puppetter, Jasmine, Karma or similar  
CI/CD - GitHub, Azure, Jenkins or similar 
Experience developing software in an agile environment and shipping features in a fast-moving, cross-disciplinary team (Product Owners, Designers, Business Analysts, QA, etc.) 
Experience working with design frameworks (e.g. Material-UI, Ant, etc) 
Understanding of browser security and performance 
Experience successfully working remotely and/or with geographically dispersed teams. 
Mortgage industry and/or Financial Services experience is a plus.?? 
Exposure to SOA and cloud computing 
Experience with authentication, like OAuth 2.0 and SSO 

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