Team Leader, Engineering

Rocket Companies

$120K — $145K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Experience leading teams focused on shared engineering capabilities rather than single applications
  • Proven leadership in managing technical teams, with skills in hiring and developing talent
  • Technical expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or software delivery
  • Practical knowledge of modern production AI including LLMs and governance
  • Ability to clarify ambiguous problems and drive measurable outcomes
  • Strong communicator with skills to influence cross-team collaborations

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a team focusing on AI enablement and developer tooling
  • Build internal tools and automation workflows to enhance engineering productivity
  • Drive adoption of AI capabilities and provide support for teams shipping AI-powered software
  • Improve observability, resilience, and reduce operational toil across Servicing Technology
  • Clarify ownership and align with leadership on AI strategy and infrastructure investment

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and well-being benefits for individuals and families
  • Personalized support to enhance work-life balance
  • Assurance of job security and support for team members
  • A culture that prioritizes team and individual growth
  • Access to various perks that promote a healthy lifestyle
Full Job Description
Servicing Technology builds and runs the systems Rocket Mortgage clients use to manage their mortgage after closing - payments, escrow, payoffs, and the support experiences around them. As Team Leader, Engineering (AI Enablement and Developer Tooling), you will lead the team that builds the tooling, accelerators, and shared engineering systems that make it faster and safer for every team in the Organization to build and operate AI-powered software.

You remove friction for the engineering teams you support through self-service tooling, reusable patterns, automation, and strong feedback loops. This is a builder's role in a space that is still being defined: you will shape what this team owns, earn credibility with senior engineers, and influence architectural decisions well beyond your direct reports.

About the role

  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team that owns AI enablement, developer tooling, and reusable accelerators for Servicing Technology
  • Build the internal tools, automation, workflows, and reference implementations that remove friction and measurably improve engineering productivity across Servicing teams
  • Drive real adoption of AI capabilities - shared patterns, evaluation, experimentation support, and production-readiness guidance - so teams ship AI-powered software confidently rather than experimentally
  • Raise the bar on observability, resilience, incident learning, automation, and reduction of operational toil across Servicing Technology
  • Turn ambiguous problems into clear ownership, decisions, and measurable outcomes, partnering with engineering, security, product, and senior leadership to align on AI strategy and infrastructure investment


About you

Minimum Qualifications
  • Have led a team whose output was consumed by other engineering teams - a shared capability, tool, or platform - rather than a single application or an operational function
  • Engineering leadership experience managing technical teams, including hiring, developing engineers, and setting technical direction
  • Strong technical depth in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or software delivery - enough to challenge architecture and earn credibility with senior engineers
  • Credible, practical understanding of modern production AI: LLMs, RAG, agents, model APIs, evaluation, lifecycle management, governance, and cost
  • Proven ability to create clarity in ambiguous spaces - establishing ownership, driving work through completion, and showing measurable outcomes
  • Excellent communication and cross-team influence, with the ability to explain complex technical tradeoffs to engineers, security partners, product, and executives


Preferred Qualifications
  • Built or led developer tooling, shared engineering capabilities, or developer productivity programs at scale
  • Productionized AI or LLM capabilities, or led AI enablement initiatives across multiple engineering teams
  • Drove measurable adoption of a shared capability across multiple teams - not just delivery of it
  • Strong awareness of how the wider industry is solving these problems, with a track record of adapting proven practices thoughtfully rather than copying them; contributions to the broader engineering community (open source, writing, speaking, standards) are a plus


Also useful, though not required: agent frameworks, AI evaluation and tracing, model routing or inference-cost optimization, and AI security, governance, and safety practices.

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.

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.

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