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Underwriter (Contract)
Aloan is automating commercial credit at banks. We need a working underwriter embedded with us to audit what the system produces, shape where the product goes next, and run live deals on Aloan themselves. The bridge between the craft of underwriting and the product reshaping it.
About Aloan
Commercial credit is still mostly assembled by hand. Underwriters chase documents, spread financials, reconcile data across three to five systems, and rebuild credit memos from scratch every deal. Aloan replaces the manual assembly with AI agents that gather, verify, and analyze financial data, producing ready-to-fund underwriting packages in under an hour. Banks and credit unions already run live commercial deals on us.
About the role
We're hiring this as a contract on purpose. The right person likely has a senior credit role somewhere already, and we want to validate fit on real work before scaling commitment on either side. If it works, the engagement can grow.
This isn't a normal underwriting seat. You'll spend most of your time auditing AI-produced credit work, telling us what an experienced underwriter would have done differently, and shaping a product that — if we get it right — changes how the next decade of commercial credit gets done. Some of your time will be back in a familiar seat, running pre-qual deals on Aloan for paying customers.
What you'll do
- Be a hands-on, senior underwriter. Multiple banks of experience, end-to-end ownership of commercial credit deals, equally comfortable in the spread and in the credit memo. Strategic enough to see why decisions matter, hands-on enough to actually do the work.
- Run QC on Aloan's outputs. Audit the spreads, financial extracts, and document processing the platform produces. Catch what's wrong, quantify how often, and tell us how an experienced underwriter would have done it differently.
- Drive product feedback. Use the commercial product the way a customer would. Surface friction, missing functionality, and opportunities to make the workflow feel native to the way underwriters actually work. We expect opinions, not just bug reports.
- Act as ongoing human-in-the-loop on live customer data. As customers run deals through Aloan, review the spreads and processed financials before they go back. This is a quality-bar enforcement role — we want a real underwriter's eyes on output until the system has earned the trust to fly solo.
- Pilot pre-qual underwriting-as-a-service. Explore offering pre-qualification underwriting as a service powered by Aloan: you use our platform to assemble a credit picture for a customer's deal. Early validation that Aloan plus an experienced underwriter can deliver a turnkey pre-qual product.
Who you are
- 10+ years commercial underwriting experience across multiple institutions (community + regional bank ideal; CRE, C&I, or both)
- Personal ownership of spreading, credit analysis, and memo writing — not just managing people who do
- Sharp, candid feedback. Comfortable saying "this is wrong, here's what an experienced underwriter would have done."
- Curiosity about AI and software — willing to use new tools and tell us where they fall short
- Available within US business hours for at least part of the week
Nice to have
- Direct experience working alongside engineers or product teams (advisory boards, fintech rotations, internal tooling roles)
- Familiarity with at least one of: nCino, Abrigo/Sageworks, Baker Hill, Moody's CreditLens, LaserPro
- Has trained or onboarded junior underwriters — translating tacit knowledge is part of this role
First 90 days
- First 30 days
- Onboarded to the platform. Walking through 5–10 historical deals end-to-end. Producing a written QC report on a representative sample of Aloan-generated spreads. First product feedback memo delivered.
- First 60 days
- Reviewing live customer outputs on a regular cadence. Embedded in product discussions on credit memo logic, spreading edge cases, and policy checks. Identified the top three workflow gaps and helped scope fixes.
- First 90 days
- Ready to run a pre-qual deal end-to-end on Aloan as a paid service test. We have a shared, written view of where the product earns trust today and where it doesn't — and a plan to close the gap.
Logistics
- Time commitment
- ~10 hrs/week, flexible scheduling. Async-first, with one weekly working session.
- Structure
- 1099 contract, hourly rate set against your background and market. We can discuss specifics on a call.
- Reports to
- Mitch (CEO) and the product team.
- Confidentiality
- You'll see live customer data on funded and prospective commercial loans. NDA + data-handling expectations are non-negotiable.
- Conflicts
- Many strong candidates are currently employed at a bank. Tell us upfront — we'll work through non-compete and disclosure constraints.
- Expansion path
- If the engagement works and the pre-qual UaaS wedge takes off, this can grow into a larger advisory or operating role.
- Tools
- Aloan platform, Slack, Linear, Google Workspace. Nothing exotic.
- Paperwork
- NDA, mutual confidentiality, and standard contractor agreement.
How to apply
Email careers@aloan.ai with the subject line "Interest in Underwriter (Contract)". Skip the cover letter. Send:
- A short note on the kinds of deals you've underwritten (size, asset class, institution).
- One example of a credit decision you got right that wasn't obvious — or one you got wrong, and what you learned.
- What makes you curious about a role that sits between underwriting and product.
- Any constraints we should know about (current employer non-compete, hours, etc.).
Aloan is an equal opportunity employer. We hire on the strength of the work and the person — race, gender, age, disability, veteran status, and any other protected characteristic don't enter into the decision.
Sound like the right kind of weird?
Most underwriters don't want to spend half their week telling a piece of software where it's wrong. If you do, we want to talk.