Kiavi is looking to leverage emerging Generative AI capabilities to automate complex credit policy rules, loan origination workflows, document review, and customer experiences, thereby widening its competitive advantage in the market.
Requirements
- Proven AI/ML Leadership: You have successfully led a team in building and shipping production software systems that leverage traditional ML and/or Gen AI models to achieve concrete business goals.
- Technical Depth: You are a former engineer and not afraid to "dive deep."
- You can comfortably lead technical design discussions, review code, and challenge your team on technical trade-offs.
- Experience: You have 10+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 5+ years in a direct people management role.
Responsibilities
- Lead & Mentor a high-performing, full-stack engineering team.
- Drive Technical Strategy: You will own the technical vision and roadmap for integrating Kiavi’s proprietary AI/ML technology into our loan origination platform and loan products.
- Execute with Excellence: Guide your team in shipping complex, large-scale projects where availability, correctness, and security are critical.
- This includes hands-on technical design, code reviews, and ensuring your team’s architecture is sound, scalable, and meets business needs.
- Own the Full Lifecycle: You will lead the end-to-end execution of your team's roadmap, from initial planning and milestone definition with Product Management, to managing timelines, communicating risk, and collaborating with key stakeholders throughout.
- Champion Quality: Set and maintain a high bar for engineering and operational quality, with a sharp focus on the compliance and correctness required in our lending systems.
- You'll leverage data from customers and systems to iterate and improve our products rapidly.
Other
- This position can be based remotely in any of our approved hiring regions.
- People Leadership: You are an exceptional people manager who knows how to attract, develop, and retain top talent.
- You see mentorship as one of the most important parts of your job.
- Execution: You have a track record of delivering complex, large-scale projects in a dynamic, fast-paced business environment.
- Clear Communication: You can clearly articulate a vision, create alignment, and communicate technical and business risks to stakeholders at all levels.
- No real-estate or mortgage experience is needed, but a hunger to learn our business is!
