Senior Underwriter

Insight Global; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global seeks a seasoned underwriter to evaluate residential transition, bridge, and construction loans from intake to approval in a fast-paced environment.

Candidates should have extensive private lending experience, strong credit judgment, and Florida market knowledge to assess ARV, LTV, LTC, and project feasibility while ensuring compliance with takeout requirements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of underwriting experience within private lending or hard money lending.
• Experience underwriting residential transition, fix-and-flip, bridge, and ground-up construction loans.
• Strong understanding of construction budgets, draw administration, project feasibility, and construction lending fundamentals.
• Excellent credit judgment with the ability to identify risks beyond what standard underwriting guidelines capture.

Responsibilities

• Underwrite residential transition, bridge, fix-and-flip, and ground-up construction loans from initial review through final approval.
• Analyze borrower experience, creditworthiness, liquidity, financial strength, and overall project economics.
• Evaluate as-is value, ARV, LTV, LTC, construction budgets, draw schedules, and project feasibility.
• Pressure-test exit strategies to ensure strong principal protection and review third-party reports for overall credit quality.

Skills

Underwriting

Private lending

Credit analysis

Job description

Key Responsibilities

Underwrite residential transition, bridge, fix-and-flip, and ground-up construction loans from initial review through final approval. Analyze borrower experience, creditworthiness, liquidity, financial strength, and overall project economics. Evaluate as-is value, after-repair value (ARV), loan-to-value (LTV), loan-to-cost (LTC), construction budgets, draw schedules, and project feasibility. Pressure-test exit strategies to ensure strong principal protection. Review appraisals, title commitments, insurance, and third-party reports for overall credit quality. Prepare clear, concise, and well-supported credit memorandums for approval. Underwrite loans to both Lendyx credit standards and takeout program requirements to ensure files are complete, compliant, and saleable. Partner with leadership to enhance underwriting policies, credit guidelines, and operational workflows as the company scales.

Compensation

Compensation: 80,000-120,000k

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

What We're Looking For 5+ years of underwriting experience within private lending or hard money lending. Extensive hands-on experience underwriting residential transition, fix-and-flip, bridge, and ground-up construction loans. Strong understanding of construction budgets, draw administration, project feasibility, and construction lending fundamentals. Excellent credit judgment with the ability to identify risks beyond what standard underwriting guidelines capture. Experience underwriting loans intended for sale to institutional buyers, note purchasers, or aggregators is highly preferred. Florida market knowledge strongly preferred. Strong analytical, communication, and decision-making skills with the confidence to own credit decisions in a fast-paced environment.