Distinguished Engineer - Servicing Tech

Rocket; Michigan; On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Rocket is seeking a Distinguished Engineer for the Servicing Tech vertical. You will set the multi-year technical direction for the systems and platforms powering mortgage client servicing, including AI-enabled workflows and platform integrations across Rocket and its partners.

You will define foundational architectural patterns, mentor senior engineers, and serve as a standing technical advisor to leadership on strategic technology bets and trade-offs.

Qualifications

• Significant tenure as a senior individual contributor with cross-team impact.
• Hands-on experience leading platform-building efforts at enterprise scale.
• Sustained external presence in the engineering community.
• Evidence of owning at least one multi-year technical bet end-to-end.
• Bachelor's or higher in Computer Science or related field (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Define the multi-year technical strategy for the next-generation servicing system and AI-based workflows.
• Own the architectural direction the vertical will build on for years.
• Lead cross-cutting platform investments that change Servicing Tech capabilities, including AI-enabled directions.
• Mentor senior engineers to develop the next generation of Distinguished Engineers.
• Advise executives on technology strategy, build-vs-buy decisions, and strategic bets.

Skills

Platform-building

Enterprise-scale impact

External presence

Multi-year bets

Mentoring engineers

Executive communication

Architectural direction

Education

Bachelor's or higher in Computer Science

Job description

As a Distinguished Engineer within Servicing Tech, you'll set the multi-year technical direction for the systems and platforms that serve 1 in 6 U.S. mortgage clients. Servicing Tech is the backbone of loan management at Rocket. Our teams across Servicing Digital, Servicing Core, Servicing Platform, Non-Performing Loans, and Team Member Experience build and operate everything from the client portal on Rocket.com to the internal systems that loan servicing, collections, finance, compliance, and investor relations rely on across the loan lifecycle.

We are entering a pivotal chapter. A full-scale System of Record modernization will reshape the technical foundation beneath our client experiences and our internal operations. AI-driven workflows and decisioning will redefine how servicing works at scale. The engineers who join us now will not inherit a finished system. They will build the one that replaces it.

The Distinguished Engineer role sits above any single team within that transformation. You'll formulate the strategy for the next-generation servicing system, the AI-based workflows that run on top of it, and the platform integrations that connect Servicing Tech to the rest of Rocket and out to investors, regulators, and partners. You'll define the AI-enabled future of the systems beneath our client and internal experiences, and own the architectural patterns that hold Servicing Tech together as it modernizes.

Distinguished Engineers are among the most senior individual contributors in the company. They set multi-year technical direction across multiple domains and shape how the business builds and operates technology. They formulate foundational platform strategy, translate emerging research into production capability, define the AI-enabled future of our engineering platforms, develop the next generation of senior ICs, and represent the company in the broader industry. They are on the path to Tech Fellow.

In this role, that mandate translates into three connected bets: the next-generation servicing system that will replace our legacy System of Record, the AI-based workflows that will run on top of it, and the platform integrations that connect it to the rest of Rocket. You'll own the technical direction across all three and the platform-level patterns that hold them together.

About The Role

• Define the multi-year technical strategy for the next-generation servicing system, the AI-based workflows that run on top of it, and the platform integrations that connect it across Rocket.
• Own the architectural direction the vertical will build on for years.
• Lead the cross-cutting platform investments that materially change what Servicing Tech is capable of, including the AI-enabled direction of our core systems.
• Own multi-year technical bets where the payoff is uncertain and the timeline outlasts most planning cycles, and stay accountable for the outcome.
• Serve as a standing technical advisor to executive leadership on technology strategy, build-vs-buy decisions, and the bets that shape Servicing Tech's direction.
• Drive alignment across engineering organizations on shared architectural direction, resolving foundational trade-offs that no single org can resolve alone.
• Maintain a sustained external presence through conference talks, written thinking, open-source contribution, or standards-body participation, such that peers outside the company recognize the work.
• Mentor Principal Engineers with the explicit aim of developing future Distinguished Engineers, and shape the engineering culture of the vertical as a named outcome of the role.

About You

Minimum Qualifications

• Significant tenure as a senior individual contributor (typically a Principal-or-equivalent track) with demonstrable company-wide impact across multiple domains.
• Hands-on experience leading platform-building efforts at enterprise scale.
• Sustained external presence in the engineering community per the recognition criteria above.
• Evidence of having owned at least one multi-year technical bet end-to-end, including accountability for the outcome.
• Bachelor's or higher in Computer Science or a related field welcome but secondary to demonstrated impact and recognition.

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep knowledge and hands-on experience in platform building, including the design and stewardship of foundational platforms that multiple product teams build on for years.
• Demonstrated company-wide and cross-domain technical impact, with a track record of work that altered the trajectory of multiple parts of the business rather than a single team or stack.
• Multi-year strategic thinking with a credible record of placing foundational technical bets, including bets that took years to validate and at least some that did not pay off.
• Experience translating research, emerging tools, or industry shifts into production-grade platforms.
• Sustained external recognition, demonstrated by two or more of: recurring conference talks at recognized venues, peer-reviewed or widely-cited writing, maintainer-level open-source contribution, standards-body participation, or named external advisory roles.
• Track record of advising executives in their own language and translating multi-year technical strategy into terms the business can act on.
• Demonstrated development of senior ICs into