Lead Front End Software Engineer

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to help design, build, and evolve mello®, loanDepot's flagship digital mortgage platform. This role focuses on building high-quality, scalable web and application experiences while leveraging modern engineering practices and AI-assisted tooling to increase velocity and reliability. You'll play a key role in shaping technical designs, delivering complex features, and mentoring peers-while remaining hands-on and deeply engaged in day-to-day development. Responsibilities:

• Partner with Product Owners to translate user stories into technical designs, estimates, and clean implementations.
• Build and maintain modern, responsive, high-performance UIs using Angular (preferred) or React.
• Contribute across web, mobile, and desktop applications in a large enterprise environment.
• Lead technical design on moderately complex features and user stories, engaging Architecture, Data, and Security teams as needed.
• Write well-structured, maintainable code with testability and performance as core principles.
• Leverage AI-assisted and agentic development tools to accelerate coding, refactoring, testing, and documentation.
• Actively participate in code reviews and design discussions, raising quality and consistency across the team.
• Ensure solutions follow security best practices, particularly around customer and financial data.
• Assist in diagnosing and resolving production issues, contributing to root-cause analysis and long-term fixes.
• Mentor junior engineers and help reinforce engineering best practices.

• Frontend & Application Development

• Strong experience building single-page applications using Angular (preferred) or React.

• Solid understanding of responsive CSS design and UI frameworks such as Tailwind, Bootstrap, or Foundation.

• Experience with state management libraries (NgRx, Redux, Akita, or similar).

• Working knowledge of RxJS, Observables, and async programming patterns in Angular.

Engineering Practices

• Demonstrated commitment to code quality, including unit testing, code reviews, and clean design.
• Experience designing applications suitable for CI/CD pipelines, with clear dependency boundaries.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted / agentic tooling for software development (e.g., code generation, test creation, refactoring assistance).

Platform & Cloud

• Experience developing and deploying applications on Microsoft Azure, including:

• Azure Functions

• Azure Storage (Blobs)

• Azure Service Bus

• API Management

• Service Fabric

• Power Automate

• Dynamics 365

Full-stack experience with Microsoft technologies (Visual Studio, SQL Server) is a plus.

Experience & Background

Bachelor's Degree preferred.

5+ years of professional experience building enterprise-grade applications.

Experience in mortgage, fintech, or loan servicing platforms (e.g., Empower) is a plus.

• Extensive internal growth and professional development opportunities including tuition reimbursement.
• Comprehensive benefits package including Medical/Dental/Vision.
• Wellness program to support both mental and physical health.
• Generous paid time off options to support work-life balance., Base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay for this role is between $138,000 and $190,500. Your base pay will depend on multiple individualized factors, including your job-related knowledge/skills, qualifications, experience, and market location.

loanDepot (NYSE: LDI) is a digital commerce company committed to serving its customers throughout the home ownership journey. Since its launch in 2010, loanDepot has revolutionized the mortgage industry with a digital-first approach that makes it easier, faster, and less stressful to purchase or refinance a home. Today, loanDepot enables customers to achieve the American dream of homeownership through a broad suite of lending and real estate services that simplify one of life's most complex transactions. With headquarters in Southern California and offices nationwide, loanDepot is committed to serving the communities in which its team lives and works through a variety of local, regional, and national philanthropic efforts.