About Point

✨ Real Impact, Real People: Our mission at Point is to make homeownership more valuable and accessible. Your work directly helps homeowners access their wealth, achieve financial flexibility, and realize life changing goals.

✨ Funding: With over $175M raised from top investors like Andreessen Horowitz, WestCap, Greylock, and Prudential, we’re scaling fast! You have the opportunity to join us at a pivotal stage.

✨ Game-changing Product: We're building a category defining company in home equity. We’ve earned a 4.7 Trustpilot rating and an A+ from the BBB, a testament to the value we provide to our 20,000+ customers.

✨ Great Place to Work: Our employees love working here! We are a Certified Great Place to Work and a Fortune Best Workplaces in the Bay Area.

✨ Remote First Culture, Genuine Connection: Work from anywhere in the U.S. while staying closely connected through virtual collaboration, team gatherings, and a people-first culture. Select roles may require onsite work at our Palo Alto office one day per week.

Local or 100% Remote

About the role

Point is looking for an experienced Home Equity Underwriter to join our US team. In this role, you'll analyze property and financial data to make approval recommendations, send offers to homeowners, and ensure compliance with company guidelines. You'll collaborate with Account Managers, Processors, and Closers to deliver top-tier customer service.

Your responsibilities

Review applications and documentation.
Request needed documents from homeowners through follow-ups.
Review the title to ensure the correct lien position and collaborate with the processor to ensure a clean title.
Submit finished dockets to QA for review and send out the final offer after the docket clears QA.
Provide updates to cross-functional teams(Processors, Closers, Account Managers).
Effectively manage a pipeline of 60-100 files/dockets.
Reject dockets that do not meet underwriting guidelines.

About you

1 year of experience in loan underwriting, loan processing, consumer lending, customer service, operations, fraud analysis, personal banking, or another analytical role.
Meticulous attention to detail.
Deep understanding of (or eagerness to learn) Fannie Mae lending guidelines.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Comfort presenting and defending credit decisions.
Fluency in Microsoft Office or Google Sheets. You use formulas to reduce errors and increase efficiency whenever possible.
A desire to deliver a high level of quality customer service.
Knowledge of common credit underwriting standards, and income and asset evaluation is a plus.
You are excited about joining a startup tech company, interested in real estate, and/or interested in fintech.

Compensation at Point will be determined by skills, experience, and geographic location. Point has identified the expected annual base salary for this role at this level based on the market by tiers (Region | Location | Market Salary):

Tier 2 | Chicago, Austin, Denver, Boston, Washington DC, San Diego, Portland, Sacramento, Philadelphia, Los Angeles & Santa Barbara | $61,000
Tier 3 | All other US metro areas | $54,000

This does not include any other potential components of the compensation package, including equity, benefits, and perks outlined above. At the launch of each position, we benchmark compensation to the appropriate role and level utilizing competitive compensation data from various data sources as references. At the offer stage, we use the signal we received from our interviews, coupled with your experience, location, and other job-related factors, to determine final compensation.

Location Requirement: This is a remote position. However, candidates must reside in one of Point’s states of operation: AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, IL, KS, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI.

Our benefits

Generous health benefits: We provide comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans with options for flexible spending accounts (FSA) and health savings accounts (HSA).
Unlimited paid time off: Recharge with unlimited paid time off and 10 company holidays.
Flexible remote and onsite work: Our teams work from many different locations and time zones. We support fully remote work and also have an amazing in-person environment in our downtown Palo Alto, CA HQ.
Fully paid parental leave: Point will supplement state Paid Family Leave (PFL) so employees receive 100% of their regular base pay, plus two additional weeks of fully paid leave after state PFL ends. In states without PFL, Point offers up to 8 weeks of paid parental leave. In addition, employees also receive 4 weeks of fully paid transition time, during which you may work 2–3 days per week while receiving full base pay.
Equity: We offer meaningful equity because we believe in sharing the value you help create. Your contributions directly impact our growth, and your equity gives you a stake in our future success.
Financial wellness: We provide 401K retirement plans for employees as well as guaranteed life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage.
Extra work/life benefits: We provide monthly stipends for internet, mobile plans, wellness perks, a one-time home office reimbursement, and company provided equipment including a MacBook and monitor.

Point is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We provide employment opportunities regardless of age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other protected class. Each individual at Point brings their own perspectives, work experiences, lifestyles, and cultures with them, and we believe that a more diverse team creates more innovative products, provides better services to customers, and helps us all grow and learn.

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