Senior Software Engineer

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be working on an innovative and scalable platform that originates personal loans. You will use your experience in software development to write clean, tested, and well-documented code, as well as provide peer code review and mentor other engineers on the team.

About the role

You will own meaningful product and technical initiatives end to end.

• Taking ideas from problem statements to shipped, measurable outcomes

• Working directly with product and business partners to make tradeoffs that actually matter

• Measuring success by impact: conversion, adoption, reliability, and real user outcomes

You will lead by example:

• Set engineering standards and patterns through your work, not documents

• Raise the bar on quality, pragmatism, and speed

• Bring depth when things get complex and simplicity when they don’t need to be

You will constantly look for leverage:

• Improve conversion and product experience, not just “code correctness”

• Introduce or evolve technology when it creates real value.

• Identify small, incremental improvements that compound over time

What You Need
Product Mindset:  You start with the user and the business problem, not the solution. You understand what the end user is trying to accomplish, why it matters, and how success is measured before writing a line of code.
End-to-end Ownership: If you build it, you stay connected to it from design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, fixes, and future improvements.
Pragmatic Approach: You value simple, durable solutions over clever ones. You know when to invest in long-term architecture and when to optimize for speed and learning.
Bias toward Action: You don’t wait for perfect requirements or complete clarity. You break complex problems into smaller steps, ship incrementally, learn from real usage, and adjust quickly.
Clear, direct communication: You explain decisions, tradeoffs, and impact clearly to engineers, product partners, and business stakeholders. You contribute through demos, discussions, and collaboration, not just pull requests.

About you

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with hands-on experience building, shipping, and supporting production software using Node.js, React, and TypeScript.

• You are a true full-stack engineer who owns features end to end across frontend and backend.

• You’re comfortable deep in the code and confident making architectural decisions and tradeoffs.

• Experience owning:

  • CI/CD pipelines

  • Automated testing

  • Production monitoring and observability

  • Post-production support and iteration

• Experience handling regulated or sensitive data (PII/PIFI) responsibly and intentionally

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,