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Senior Software Engineer I

Rocket
Detroit, MI Full Time
POSTED ON 8/2/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 9/26/2026
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will help build and scale a newly launched AI-first product that directly impacts company revenue by helping our internal sales team members focus on the clients most likely to convert.

This role is for an engineer who wants to own meaningful product outcomes end to end. From understanding the business problem, shaping the technical approach, building across the stack, deploying to production, and learning from real usage. You will be expected to use AI as a core part of how you design, code, test, debug, review, and ship software.

You will work closely with engineers, product partners, and business stakeholders across distributed teams. The ideal candidate is highly driven, comfortable with ambiguity, and excited to help define what AI-native engineering looks like in practice.

About The Role

  • Own full-stack features from problem definition through design, implementation, release, measurement, and iteration.
  • Build product capabilities that help bankers prioritize the right clients, take the right actions, and improve conversion outcomes.
  • Design and implement scalable backend and frontend solutions using technologies such as C#, Angular, AWS, and Kubernetes.
  • Use AI tools and agentic development workflows to increase engineering speed, improve quality, and raise the bar for how the team builds software.
  • Partner with product, design, data, and business stakeholders to translate ambiguous business needs into reliable technical solutions.
  • Contribute to architecture and technical strategy decisions that balance speed, scalability, maintainability, and business impact.
  • Collaborate effectively across distributed engineering teams, including partners in India.
  • Mentor other engineers by sharing patterns, improving team workflows, and modeling high ownership.

About You

You are a builder who cares about outcomes, not just tickets. You move quickly, and also hold a high bar for quality. You are curious about AI, already using it seriously in your development workflow, and excited to push the team toward better ways of working.

You are comfortable operating in an early-stage product environment where requirements evolve, priorities shift, and strong engineers are expected to bring clarity rather than wait for perfect instructions.

Minimum Qualifications

  • 5 years of professional software development experience.
  • Strong experience building production software using languages such as C#, Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or similar.
  • Experience building full-stack applications across frontend, backend, APIs, and data integrations.
  • Experience designing, deploying, or operating applications on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
  • Strong understanding of software design, system architecture, testing, observability, and maintainability.
  • Demonstrated ability to solve ambiguous problems and collaborate effectively across teams.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Strong hands-on usage of AI tools in professional software development workflows.
  • Experience using AI coding agents, AI-assisted reviews, prompt-driven development, or multi-agent workflows.
  • Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, automated testing, and production operations.
  • Track record of delivering features in greenfield, early-stage, or rapidly evolving product environments.
  • Experience in fintech, financial services, or sales enablement.
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and influence team engineering practices.

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 Mortgage® was founded in 1985. Today, we’re a Detroit-based, publicly traded company with a mission to Help Everyone Home. At Rocket Mortgage, we believe that home is more than the house you live in. Our wide variety of home loan options, tools and resources empower our clients to achieve their homeownership dreams. We’re known as experts in the mortgage industry, but we’re also innovators – we strive to create the best experiences for our clients from beginning to end. And we’re not your typical employer. 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 Careers@Rocket.com.

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