Vice President – Engineering

Rocket Mortgage

Vice President of Engineering responsible for leading Agile divisions and driving innovation at Rocket Loans. Promoting the company mission and overseeing software development practices and teams.

Posted 6/10/2026full-timeRemote • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $216,000 - $457,500 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

JavaJavaScriptPHPPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead and mentor value streams of Agile divisions
Communicate and promote the culture and mission of the company
Collaborate with senior value stream leadership to establish a mission aligned with the company vision
Promote iterative, thoughtful decision-making within self-organized teams
Lead the maturation of software development and Agile practices in the organization
Identify organizational requirements for changes to systems, structures and culture necessary to support agility and adaptability
Assist value stream leaders in balancing enterprise risk and agility
Understand and plan for the product roadmap
Develop short-, mid- and long-term key results with multiple divisions to achieve value stream objectives
Identify roadblocks preventing success of strategic themes or objectives
Oversee and calibrate divisional talent acquisition roadmaps and succession plans
Prepare and deliver reviews, compensation adjustments and promotions
Oversee and calibrate training, development plans and to onboard and upskill the value stream brainforce
Identify, implement and drive adoption of best practices within the leadership community
Mentor and support team members

Requirements

What you’ll need

11 years of experience or equivalent in software engineering, quality engineering and/or product
9 years of experience in leading software delivery teams
Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience in computer science, information technology or a related field
Recognized excellence in leading and supporting divisional initiatives
Extensive experience building self-organizing teams that meet organizational engineering and architecture standards
Experience using Agile metrics
Extensive knowledge of people leadership practices, such as change management, recruiting, hiring, performance management, corrective action and compensation administration
Preferred: 9 years of experience programming in C#, F#, PHP, Python, Java, JavaScript, or other object-oriented/functional programming languages
Graduate degree or equivalent experience in computer science, information technology or a related field
Certified in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Agile practices
Experience mentoring and developing senior leadership

Benefits

Comp & perks

health benefits
401K retirement plan
paid-time off
annual bonus
incentives

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Hard Skills & Tools

C#F#PHPPythonJavaJavaScriptAgile metricssoftware engineeringquality engineeringproduct management

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcommunicationcollaborationdecision-makingchange managementperformance managementorganizational adaptabilityteam developmentstrategic planning

Certifications

Certified in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)