Distinguished Engineer - Servicing Tech

About The Role

Define the multi-year technical strategy for the next-generation servicing system, the AI-based workflows that run on top of it, and the platform integrations that connect it across Rocket.

• Own the architectural direction the vertical will build on for years.
• Lead the cross-cutting platform investments that materially change what Servicing Tech is capable of, including the AI-enabled direction of our core systems.
• Own multi-year technical bets where the payoff is uncertain and the timeline outlasts most planning cycles, and stay accountable for the outcome.
• Serve as a standing technical advisor to executive leadership on technology strategy, build-vs-buy decisions, and the bets that shape Servicing Tech's direction.
• Drive alignment across engineering organizations on shared architectural direction, resolving foundational trade-offs that no single org can resolve alone.
• Maintain a sustained external presence through conference talks, written thinking, open-source contribution, or standards-body participation, such that peers outside the company recognize the work.
• Mentor Principal Engineers with the explicit aim of developing future Distinguished Engineers, and shape the engineering culture of the vertical as a named outcome of the role.

About You

Minimum Qualifications

• Significant tenure as a senior individual contributor (typically a Principal-or-equivalent track) with demonstrable company-wide impact across multiple domains.
• Hands-on experience leading platform-building efforts at enterprise scale.
• Sustained external presence in the engineering community per the recognition criteria above.
• Evidence of having owned at least one multi-year technical bet end-to-end, including accountability for the outcome.
• Bachelor's or higher in Computer Science or a related field welcome but secondary to demonstrated impact and recognition.

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep knowledge and hands-on experience in platform building, including the design and stewardship of foundational platforms that multiple product teams build on for years.
• Demonstrated company-wide and cross-domain technical impact, with a track record of work that altered the trajectory of multiple parts of the business rather than a single team or stack.
• Multi-year strategic thinking with a credible record of placing foundational technical bets, including bets that took years to validate and at least some that did not pay off.
• Experience translating research, emerging tools, or industry shifts into production-grade platforms.
• Sustained external recognition, demonstrated by two or more of: recurring conference talks at recognized venues, peer-reviewed or widely-cited writing, maintainer-level open-source contribution, standards-body participation, or named external advisory roles.
• Track record of advising executives in their own language and translating multi-year technical strategy into terms the business can act on.
• Demonstrated development of senior ICs into the next level, including Principal Engineers, or comparable evidence of growing the technical leadership bench.

Pay

The compensation for this position is $249,500.00–$529,500.00. The position may also be eligible for an annual bonus, incentives, and other employment-related benefits including, but not limited to, medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401K retirement plan, and paid-time off.

On-Call Expectations

This role may include participation in an on-call rotation to support production systems and ensure service reliability. On-call responsibilities may include coverage during nights and weekends. If applicable, frequency and scheduling will be determined by team needs and communicated accordingly.