Native App Engineering, Team Leader

Rocket Companies

Rocket Companies

Detroit, MI, USA
Posted on Sep 30, 2025

As a Mobile Engineering Leader at Rocket, you'll lead a talented team of iOS and Android engineers focused on revolutionizing the mortgage origination experience through our native mobile applications. You will drive innovation that enables clients to complete transactions faster and more efficiently while maintaining the highest standards of trust and effectiveness. Your technical expertise combined with your leadership skills will empower your team to create seamless mobile experiences that dramatically reduce closing times and increase app adoption among clients.

About the role

  • Lead a team of 4-6 engineers (iOS, Android) focused on the origination and transaction components of the Rocket product

  • Collaborate closely with product management and design partners to define and execute the mobile product roadmap

  • Drive planning, goal setting, and metrics ownership while fostering a data-fluent culture within your team

  • Empower engineers to innovate through experimentation while maintaining high standards for code quality and user experience

  • Develop strategies to dramatically reduce mortgage closing times through improved mobile experiences

  • Champion native app adoption and optimize task completion rates throughout the origination process

  • Balance technical leadership with people management to ensure both product excellence and team growth

About you

Minimum Qualifications

  • 3+ years of engineering experience in either iOS or Android development (depth in one platform required)

  • 5+ years of technology leadership experience

  • Strong understanding of mobile development principles, patterns, and best practices

  • Experience setting team goals, tracking metrics, and making data-driven decisions

  • Proven ability to balance technical excellence with business objectives

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with Swift/SwiftUI for iOS or Kotlin/Jetpack Compose for Android

  • Familiarity with GraphQL and modern mobile service architectures

  • Background in financial technology or mortgage industry

  • Experience managing distributed engineering teams

  • Track record of performance management and career development for technical teams

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

Rocket Mortgage® was founded in 1985. Today, we’re a Detroit-based, publicly traded company with a mission to Help Everyone Home. At Rocket Mortgage, we believe that home is more than the house you live in. Our wide variety of home loan options, tools and resources empower our clients to achieve their homeownership dreams. We’re known as experts in the mortgage industry, but we’re also innovators – we strive to create the best experiences for our clients from beginning to end. And we’re not your typical employer. 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.

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.