Team Leader, Product Development - AI Platforms

United Wholesale Mortgage•Pontiac, MI

About The Position

At UWM we want the best people. We work with you to ensure your role is tailored to best suit you. You will play a key role in expanding our fast growing product development team. We have experienced explosive growth as an emerging leader in the Financial Industry, and are looking for team leads who will lead our growth going forward. As a Lead at UWM you will work in a fast paced, results driven environment and be responsible mentoring and growing a cross functional team of developers, BAs, and QAs who will work to build a highly scalable enterprise application. Your team will be a highly talented group comprised of talented developers that are working on many of our exciting projects to continue our phenomenal growth and dominance of the wholesale mortgage market. We are looking for the best Feature-based AI Platform Leads who are motivated and possess exemplary communication and leadership abilities. The ideal candidate for this position will have experience with the entire software development life cycle, and specific AI Tools beyond just ChatGPT or other LLMs.

Requirements

Experience with building AI systems
Ability to communicate with strong technical skills
A minimum of 3 years’ experience with software project delivery
Strong analytical problem solving skills
Experience with customer management (setting expectations, relationship management)
Ability to work with limited guidance in a team environment
Experience with team member management
Full software life-cycle experience
Exemplary communication abilities
Ability to mentor developers
Excellent organizational skills
Computer-related degree or equivalent work experience

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with Data Science concepts and foundations
5 years’ experience with software project management
Familiarity with Google Cloud products and tools
Experienced with Python
Experience in the mortgage industry
Experience with Jira and Git
Experience in an Agile environment
Experience unit testing
Knowledge of SOLID principles

Responsibilities

You are responsible for the productivity of your team
Promote best practices and patterns
Facilitate communication between team members to ensure the success of your team
Mentor and lead developers, BAs, and QAs
Foster learning on your team
Suggest new processes and document reoccurring processes that will help streamline software development.
Leads the design, construction, and implementation phases of system or project upgrades.
Cultivate leadership on your team
Facilitate collaboration on your team, and among our other technical discipline leads
Foster adoption and adherence to our Agile software methodology
Drive to keep projects on track
Keep senior leaders well informed during the project life cycle
Participate in interviews

Benefits

Paid Time Off (PTO) after just 30 days
Additional parental and maternity leave benefits after 12 months
Adoption reimbursement program
Paid volunteer hours
Paid training and career development
Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
401k with employer match
Mortgage discount and area business discounts
Free membership to our large, state-of-the-art fitness center, including exercise classes such as yoga and Zumba, various sports leagues and a full-size basketball court
Wellness area, including an in-house primary-care physician’s office, full-time massage therapist and hair salon
Gourmet cafeteria featuring homemade breakfast and lunch
Convenience store featuring healthy grab-and-go snacks
In-house Starbucks and Dunkin
Indoor/outdoor café with Wi-Fi