Residential Mortgage Underwriter

4 weeks ago


Knoxville, Tennessee, United States Sage Home Loans Corporation Full time

Job Title: Residential Mortgage Underwriter

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled Residential Mortgage Underwriter to join our team at Sage Home Loans Corporation. As a Residential Mortgage Underwriter, you will be responsible for underwriting various types of residential real estate secured loans, providing input into operational initiatives, and serving as a subject matter expert in residential underwriting.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Underwrite residential real estate secured loans, ensuring compliance with investor guidelines and regulatory requirements.
  • Provide input into operational initiatives, benchmarks, and metrics to meet department objectives.
  • Serve as a subject matter expert in residential underwriting, particularly agency (Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac) underwriting guidelines.
  • Analyze complex loans with specific investor guideline overlays and industry trends related to loan underwriting and home equity lending.
  • Review, analyze, and audit complex residential real estate loan transactions for data input accuracy, regulatory compliance, and document requirements.
  • Complete cash flow analysis to determine the borrower's cash flow and overall financial condition.
  • Utilize manual and automated underwriting to determine appropriate conditions and loan decisions according to investor requirements.
  • Review collateral/property appraisals to ensure documents meet all investor requirements.
  • Ensure integrity of all state and federal regulations affecting the underwriting and issuance of mortgage credit to borrowers.
  • Approve loans up to lending authority, review and sign off secondary market loan denials, and escalate loans above authority for appropriate review.
  • Provide input for development and revision of department procedures related to processing residential real estate loans.

Requirements:

  • At least 3-5 years of underwriting experience.
  • Knowledge of FHA, VA loans, and automated underwriting systems.
  • Ability to work effectively with applicants, loan officers, appraisal/title vendors, and other interested parties to resolve underwriting issues.
  • Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.

About Us:

Sage Home Loans Corporation is a digital mortgage lender solution redefining the mortgage origination experience. We're creating simple and clean customer experiences to simplify the mortgage application process. Our team has developed a fully digital online application that enables users to complete their application and start looking for the right mortgage that matches their needs 24/7.

We offer competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits program for full-time employees, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, life insurance, disability coverage, employee assistance program, 401(k) plan, and a paid parental leave program.

Red Ventures is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, or any other basis protected by law.



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