Lead Front End Software Engineer (Angular/React)

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.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• 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.
• Extensive internal growth and professional development opportunities including tuition reimbursement.