Manager, Mortgage Tech

About Homeward

Buying a home should be an exciting milestone. But all too often, it’s stressful, especially in a competitive market or when you’re buying and selling at the same time. So we’re redesigning the home-buying experience. We’re a fast-paced real estate startup that empowers agents to help homebuyers buy with cash. We buy homes on behalf of our partners’ clients with our cash, then the client buys the home back from us.

Founder and CEO Tim Heyl, a 10-year industry veteran and owner of one of the fastest-growing agent teams in the country, started Homeward in 2018. In fact, he bought our first customer’s home with his own life savings. Today we offer two services — Buy with cash and Buy before you sell.

We’ve raised more than $160MM in equity capital from top-tier venture investors, including Norwest, Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, Adams Street, Javelin, and LiveOak. Our leadership team includes experts from the real estate, mortgage, and technology industries.

About the Opportunity

We’re seeking a manager for our mortgage tech team to lead the team into the next evolution of our mortgage technology stack. Over the last 12 months the team and tech-stack has rapidly evolved and Homeward needs a tech leader with a deep understanding in mortgage technology and familiarity with the dynamic tech landscapes of a startup.

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

In this role, you will:
• Work as a liaison between cross functional team leadership and technology specialists
• Orchestrate the tech scoping conversations and delegation deliverables to direct reports
• Work with cross-product teams to evaluate impacts on other enterprise systems
• Translate technical requirements into JIRA tickets through scoping meetings with cross-functional partners and program managers
• Facilitate technical design review oversight meetings with direct reports
• Help grow the careers of our mortgage technology specialists

What you’ll bring:
• 10+ years of experience within Mortgage and Title technology industry
• Experience leading technology-focused teams
• Proven track record of managing and growing a tech team
• Ability to work in rapidly changing tech-stack
• Open to collaboration and input from cross functional team
• An understanding of how to translate problems from business partners into technical solutions

Our Values

THE GOLDEN RULE

Whether we’re dealing with colleagues or customers, we follow The Golden Rule, treating others the way we want to be treated. It’s a simple rule, but it’s also significant: we don’t prioritize money or growth over people, and we practice empathy at every opportunity.

CALM FOCUS

We work in tech and build solutions for real estate. Both are fast-paced and stressful industries. So it’s important that we focus on the larger objective rather than rushing from one task to the next. If something is out of scope, we say “No.” If something feels rushed, we pump the brakes. This calm focus helps us create solutions our customers love.

ONE TEAM, ONE DREAM

Big problems require big solutions. We look at our customers’ experience holistically, and recognize that solving them requires collaboration across teams. This approach extends to cooperation among our three affiliate companies — Homeward, Homeward Mortgage, and Homeward Title — and results in a better home buying experience.

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