Lead Front End Software Engineer (Angular / React)

Description

Position at loanDepot Position Summary : 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.

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