Leads software engineering across a mortgage products platform, solving broad technical problems, developing reusable modules and AI-assisted capabilities, improving delivery and support processes, guiding design reviews, resolving incidents, mentoring engineers, and driving adoption of AI and modern engineering practices.
A Staff Software Engineer is an expert developer who has demonstrated their capacity for solving problems of broad scope that support the success of their value stream. They explore, experiment, and improve the consistent delivery of iterative value. Staff Software Engineers provide mentoring across their value stream, helping develop its overall capabilities. This position is aligned with our Mortgage Products Platform which provides capabilities such as mortgage calculations, product recommendations, eligibility, document generation, and eClosing. We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer proficient with AI-native solutions, tools, and concepts who is capable of reimagining legacy implementations and enabling agentic interaction with our platform capabilities.
About the role
About you
Minimum Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
What you'll get
Our team members fuel our strategy, innovation and growth, so we ensure the health and well-being of not just you, but your family, too! We go above and beyond to give you the support you need on an individual level and offer all sorts of ways to help you live your best life. We are proud to offer eligible team members perks and health benefits that will help you have peace of mind. Simply put: We've got your back. Check out our full list of Benefits and Perks.
On-Call Expectations
This role may include participation in an on-call rotation to support production systems and ensure service reliability. On-call responsibilities may include coverage during nights and weekends. If applicable, frequency and scheduling will be determined by team needs and communicated accordingly.
About us
Rocket is a Detroit-based company made up of businesses that provide simple, fast and trusted digital solutions for complex transactions. The name comes from our flagship business, now known as Rocket Mortgage®, which was founded in 1985. Today, we're a publicly traded company involved in many different industries, including mortgages, fintech, real estate and more. We're insistently different in how we look at the world and are committed to an inclusive workplace where every voice is heard. Apply today to join a team that offers career growth, amazing benefits and the chance to work with leading industry professionals.
This job description is an outline of the primary responsibilities of this position and may be modified at the discretion of the company at any time. Decisions related to employment are not based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, military or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law. The company provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable state and federal laws. Applicants requiring reasonable accommodations in completing the application and/or participating in the application process should contact a member of the Human Resources team, at [email protected] .
The compensation information below is provided in compliance with all applicable job posting disclosure requirements. The compensation for this position is $149,000.00-$318,000.00 . The position may also be eligible for an annual bonus, incentives, and other employment-related benefits including, but not limited to, medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401K retirement plan, and paid-time off. More information regarding these benefits and others can be found here . The information regarding compensation and other benefits included in this paragraph is the company's current, good faith estimate at the time of posting. [Compensation and benefits are subject to modification from time to time as the Company, in its sole and exclusive discretion, deems appropriate.] The Company may determine during its future reviews of the proposed compensation and benefits provided for this position, that the compensation and benefits for such position should be reduced. In no event will the Company reduce the compensation for the position to a level below the applicable jurisdictional minimum wage rate for the position. Los Angeles County and San Francisco Candidates only: qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment per the Fair Chance Ordinance and the Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.
About the role
- Solve difficult problems for the value stream using software and provide examples of new technology or patterns
- Contribute to improving processes across the value stream while releasing and validating software
- Coach and assist with high severity software support, incident resolution and blameless reviews for the value stream
- Develop code modules and patterns useful across the value stream, including configurable and AI-assisted capabilities that let business partners self-serve
- Evaluate new technologies and approaches, including AI tools and workflows, for use by the enterprise
- Guide code and design reviews for the value stream, helping establish standards and challenge practices
- Communicate about software across all levels of the organization, tailoring the details appropriately to the audience
- Mentor team members on any of the above, and drive AI adoption across the value stream by modeling its use in disruptive problem solving and day-to-day engineering
- Assist leadership with improving flow by identifying and helping address technical debt and process issues for the value stream
About you
Minimum Qualifications
- Track record of solving high-level problems through innovative software solutions
- Experience with the programming languages, frameworks and platforms used across the value stream, such as C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Angular or AWS, ideally with expertise in C# and/or AWS
- Expertise developing software modules or patterns used across multiple teams
- Experience refining software integration and delivery patterns to improve ongoing support
- Experience helping develop work items from business requirements, such as refining requirements and assisting with software design
- Expertise mentoring and developing others
- Experience providing thought leadership to influence software development practices across internal groups
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
- 9 years of experience in a professional software engineering or similar role
- Expertise developing for a cloud environment or advanced cloud provider certification, ideally AWS
- Expertise designing or refining agent-driven software delivery
- Experience building self-serve configuration tools or pricing/eligibility systems, ideally in mortgage or financial services
- Hands-on experience using AI to disrupt legacy problem spaces and accelerate software delivery
What you'll get
Our team members fuel our strategy, innovation and growth, so we ensure the health and well-being of not just you, but your family, too! We go above and beyond to give you the support you need on an individual level and offer all sorts of ways to help you live your best life. We are proud to offer eligible team members perks and health benefits that will help you have peace of mind. Simply put: We've got your back. Check out our full list of Benefits and Perks.
On-Call Expectations
This role may include participation in an on-call rotation to support production systems and ensure service reliability. On-call responsibilities may include coverage during nights and weekends. If applicable, frequency and scheduling will be determined by team needs and communicated accordingly.
About us
Rocket is a Detroit-based company made up of businesses that provide simple, fast and trusted digital solutions for complex transactions. The name comes from our flagship business, now known as Rocket Mortgage®, which was founded in 1985. Today, we're a publicly traded company involved in many different industries, including mortgages, fintech, real estate and more. We're insistently different in how we look at the world and are committed to an inclusive workplace where every voice is heard. Apply today to join a team that offers career growth, amazing benefits and the chance to work with leading industry professionals.
This job description is an outline of the primary responsibilities of this position and may be modified at the discretion of the company at any time. Decisions related to employment are not based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, military or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law. The company provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable state and federal laws. Applicants requiring reasonable accommodations in completing the application and/or participating in the application process should contact a member of the Human Resources team, at [email protected] .
The compensation information below is provided in compliance with all applicable job posting disclosure requirements. The compensation for this position is $149,000.00-$318,000.00 . The position may also be eligible for an annual bonus, incentives, and other employment-related benefits including, but not limited to, medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401K retirement plan, and paid-time off. More information regarding these benefits and others can be found here . The information regarding compensation and other benefits included in this paragraph is the company's current, good faith estimate at the time of posting. [Compensation and benefits are subject to modification from time to time as the Company, in its sole and exclusive discretion, deems appropriate.] The Company may determine during its future reviews of the proposed compensation and benefits provided for this position, that the compensation and benefits for such position should be reduced. In no event will the Company reduce the compensation for the position to a level below the applicable jurisdictional minimum wage rate for the position. Los Angeles County and San Francisco Candidates only: qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment per the Fair Chance Ordinance and the Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.
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