AI-First Engineering Lead — Agentic Apps & Growth

Rocket Companies, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 124,000 - 276,000; Full time

Job summary

Rocket Companies seeks an Engineering Lead to oversee a new AI-first product that directly impacts revenue. You’ll code and shape architecture while growing a team of engineers, defining AI-native practices, and steering the technical roadmap in a fast-paced, early-stage environment backed by an established company.

You’ll hire, mentor, and set priorities with product partners, ensuring safe, scalable, and high‑quality AI-enabled features. Collaboration across distributed teams is central.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• 2+ years leading engineers as a manager or tech lead.
• Experience with languages such as C#, Java, Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
• Experience designing and operating full‑stack systems on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Track record of hiring, coaching, and growing engineers.
• Experience owning technical strategy or architecture for a product or platform.
• Demonstrated ability to work with product and business stakeholders to set priorities and deliver outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers building agentic AI capabilities such as agent orchestration, tool calling, retrieval-augmented workflows, and LLM-powered features.
• Stay hands-on: contribute to architecture, write and review code, and build critical components alongside the team.
• Own the technical strategy for the platform, balancing speed, scalability, maintainability, and business impact.
• Set the standard for evaluation, observability, and guardrails for AI agents, ensuring reliability, safety, and measurable quality in production.
• Hire, coach, and grow engineers, giving clear feedback and creating real growth paths for the team.
• Partner with product, design, data, and business stakeholders to set priorities and translate ambiguous business needs into a clear roadmap.
• Define how the team works: engineering practices, AI-native development workflows, code review culture, and delivery cadence.
• Lead collaboration across distributed engineering teams, including partners in India.

Skills

Software development

Team leadership

Architectural design

Cloud platforms

Hiring & coaching

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

LangGraph

Semantic Kernel

AutoGen

Job description

Rocket Companies seeks an Engineering Lead to oversee a new AI-first product that directly impacts revenue. You’ll code and shape architecture while growing a team of engineers, defining AI-native practices, and steering the technical roadmap in a fast-paced, early-stage environment backed by an established company.

You’ll hire, mentor, and set priorities with product partners, ensuring safe, scalable, and high‑quality AI-enabled features. Collaboration across distributed teams is central.