Full-Stack Engineer II — AI-Driven, Production-First

Rocket; Michigan; On-site; USD 97,000 - 207,000; Full time

Job summary

Rocket, a Detroit-based company, is seeking a Software Engineer II to own full-stack features powering Rocket Mortgage and servicing apps. You will design, build, test and deploy across front-end and back-end, leveraging AI tools and modern frameworks, while mentoring junior engineers.

You’ll work with AWS/EKS, CI/CD pipelines, and a NestJS GraphQL integration layer, helping shape architecture and engineering practices. This role emphasizes impact and collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional full-stack software development experience.
• Proven track record of designing, building, and maintaining scalable, high-performance web applications.
• Hands-on experience with a modern front-end framework (Next.js or React) and a NestJS GraphQL integration layer.
• Hands-on experience with back-end development in .NET / C# and NestJS GraphQL.
• Experience deploying and operating applications on AWS and Amazon EKS / Kubernetes with CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience using AI code generation tools such as GitHub Copilot, Anthropic Claude Code, Cursor, or similar.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment, handle ambiguity, and empathize with customers.
• Brings a product mindset: curious about user behavior, driven to improve the user experience, and motivated by business impact.

Responsibilities

• Own the full lifecycle of full-stack features, from design through deployment and optimization.
• Build across front end (Next.js/React) and back end (.NET/C#, NestJS GraphQL).
• Collaborate with product, design, analytics and other engineers to shape the servicing experience end to end.
• Contribute to decisions around architecture, tooling and best practices.
• Deploy and operate applications on AWS and EKS via CI/CD pipelines.
• Use AI tools to increase engineering speed and quality.
• Mentor junior engineers and foster a culture of learning and collaboration.

Skills

Full-stack

React/Next.js

NestJS GraphQL

.NET/C#

AWS/EKS

CI/CD

AI tools

Team collaboration

Product mindset

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Rocket, a Detroit-based company, is seeking a Software Engineer II to own full-stack features powering Rocket Mortgage and servicing apps. You will design, build, test and deploy across front-end and back-end, leveraging AI tools and modern frameworks, while mentoring junior engineers.

You’ll work with AWS/EKS, CI/CD pipelines, and a NestJS GraphQL integration layer, helping shape architecture and engineering practices. This role emphasizes impact and collaboration across teams.