The Rock Family of Companies is made up of nearly 100 separate businesses spanning fintech, sports, entertainment, real estate, startups and more. We’re united by our culture – a drive to find a better way that fuels our commitment to our clients, our community and our team members. We believe in and build inclusive workplaces, where every voice is heard and diverse perspectives are welcomed. Working for a company in the Family is about more than just a job – it’s about having the opportunity to become the best version of yourself.

As a Software Architect, you’ll act as a technical thought leader with a deep understanding of the necessary trade-offs in the architectural design and integrations within your product area. You’ll influence FRs and NFRs, contribute technical work items to the product roadmap, and oversee deliberations with technical stakeholders to ensure the quality and functionality of the software. You’ll also be responsible for elevating engineering team performance and have demonstrated your ability as an accomplished senior engineer.

At Rocket Loans, our technology team is building the next generation of digital lending platforms that are revolutionizing how people access money. Our engineering teams are working with modern web technologies, AWS cloud infrastructure, and innovative API-driven architectures to scale our operations to become the industry leader while maintaining exceptional client experiences. We're passionate about combining technical excellence with real business impact, creating systems that handle everything from application intake to credit decisioning to servicing - all while fostering an environment where engineers can grow their skills and make meaningful contributions to our clients' financial journeys.

Key requirements

• Ability to align technical direction with business priorities, influencing both roadmap and resourcing decisions

• Experience solving integration and software design problems across domains

• Understanding of distributed architectural design principles

• Experience recommending improvements in areas such as security, performance and maintainability

• Experience developing an organization's architectural discipline

About the role

• Lead the evolution of our platform from early-stage foundations to scalable, resilient systems, with measurable impact on reliability, MTTR, and delivery velocity

• Lead design of software and integration patterns for our loan origination and servicing platforms

• Act as thought leader in the iterative creation of fault-tolerant and scalable software--driving architecture reviews, and aligning engineering teams around technical strategies

• Design with consideration of constraints and NFRs, such as availability, security and performance

• Collaborate with engineers and architects to define technology architecture governance

• Collaborate with engineers to implement testing frameworks, coverage standards and quality standards

• Collaborate with technical stakeholders to document specifications and reference architectures

• Mentor engineers and collaborate with engineering managers in the delivery of new platform features

• Facilitate decision-making discussions on adapt/buy/create solutions

• Guide adoption of standard development tools, technologies, libraries and frameworks

• Execute proof-of-concept experiments and generate prototypes

• Analyze current and future user needs and business requirements to identify opportunities for improvement

• Reports to the Architecture and Platform Team Lead, working closely with other senior technical staff, product owners, and engineering Team Leads

About you
Minimum qualifications

• Experience building and deploying cloud-native applications (AWS preferred)

• Expertise programming in object-oriented/functional programming languages preferably with JavaScript/TypeScript

• Expertise using software development frameworks and platforms (NextJS and NestJS preferred)

• Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes preferred)

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform preferred) for automated platform provisioning and environment management

• Ability to interpret business needs to guide research of technical disciplines

• Ability to pioneer and lead adoption of engineering tooling and practices

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience in computer science, information technology or a related field

Preferred qualifications

• Ability to articulate principles for significant architectural decisions

• Experience defining and mitigating security threats through FRs and NFRs

• Experience with event-driven architectures

• Experience mentoring and training

• Experience creating visualizations for architecture diagrams, process flows, sequence diagrams, and enterprise resource diagrams

• Experience designing and integrating large-scale data systems, including data pipelines, storage, and access patterns for analytics or operational use

• Basic solution architecture certification from a major cloud provider

• Graduate degree or equivalent experience in computer science, information technology or a related field

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.

About us

Headquartered in Detroit, Rocket Loans was established to create the most simple, rocket fast personal loan process. We assembled a top-notch team of individuals combining new, passionate team members with some of the best veterans from Rocket Mortgage to create the most user-friendly lending platform in the world. We have given it our best to create an experience that is best-of-breed in the personal loan industry and commit even more to continuously improving it. At Rocket Loans, you’ll build a career that helps you achieve your professional goals while helping clients get the loans they need to reach their financial goals. We’re looking for innovators and those unafraid to disrupt the status-quo. With an inclusive culture and opportunities to make a positive impact, we’re here to help you foster your career growth.

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@myrocketcareer.com.

The Company is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and does not discriminate in any hiring or employment practices. The Company provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with state and federal law. Applicants requiring reasonable accommodation in completing the application and/or participating in the employment application process should notify a representative of the Human Resources Team, The Pulse, at Careers@myrocketcareer.com.