Software Engineering Manager (Agentic AI Applications)

Role Description

As the Engineering Lead, you will lead the team building a newly launched AI-first product with direct revenue impact. Our platform analyzes client communications and engagement signals to help mortgage bankers, the sales professionals who guide clients through home financing, focus on the clients most likely to convert. Your team builds agentic AI applications: systems where agents reason, plan, use tools, and act on their own to drive real business outcomes.

This is a player-coach role. You'll spend real time in the code: shaping architecture, reviewing designs, building critical pieces yourself, and setting the technical bar by example. At the same time, you'll own the health and direction of the team:

• Hiring and growing engineers
• Setting priorities with product partners
• Ensuring the team ships things that matter

AI is not a side tool here. You'll use it as a core part of how you and the team design, code, test, debug, review, and ship software.

The ideal candidate is a strong engineer who genuinely wants to lead: someone energized by building a team and a product at the same time, and by defining what AI-native engineering looks like in practice.

This is a rare setup. You get the autonomy, pace, and greenfield ownership of an early-stage startup, backed by the stability, resources, and built-in distribution of an established company. The product just launched, usage is growing, and both the architecture and the team are still being shaped. You won't inherit someone else's team or someone else's technical decisions. You'll build both, and your choices will define how this product and this team work for years. You'll also get access to frontier AI development tools, including AI coding agents like Claude Code, as a core and funded part of how the team works.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience, including 2+ years leading engineers as a manager or tech lead.
• Strong hands-on experience building production software in languages such as C#, Java, Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
• Experience designing and operating full-stack systems across frontend, backend, APIs, and data integrations 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.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience building with agentic AI frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, CrewAI, or similar), LLM APIs, or Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool integrations.
• Experience with LLM application patterns such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agent evaluation harnesses, guardrails, or production monitoring of AI behavior.
• Experience leading a team through AI-native ways of working, such as AI coding agents, AI-assisted reviews, or multi-agent workflows.
• Experience building or leading a team in a greenfield or newly formed product environment.
• Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, automated testing, and production operations.

Benefits

• Health and well-being support for you and your family.
• Comprehensive perks and health benefits.
• Peace of mind with various support options.

Company Description

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.