AI-First Android Engineer

Grove Collaborative is a sustainability-focused consumer products company creating household and personal care essentials that are effective, beautifully designed, and healthier for people and the planet. We are a certified B Corp, plastic-neutral, and on a mission to transform the CPG industry for good. THE ROLE Grove is hiring an AI-First Android Engineer - a senior, single-threaded owner of our Android surface who operates as an engineer-as-a-team. This isn t a role where you hand-write every line and lean on AI for autocomplete. This is a role where AI is your primary instrument: you direct fleets of coding agents, generate, review, and refactor at orders of magnitude beyond what a traditional engineer can produce, and take total ownership of features end-to-end - from discovery through production. You will be measured by what ships, what stays up, and what customers feel - not by lines of code or tokens used. You operate in a new-world environment where one well-equipped engineer can deliver the output of a small team. We expect you to compound your own leverage every quarter: better prompts, better evals, better agent harnesses, better guardrails. The bar isn t uses AI tools. The bar is runs AI like a team you manage. WHAT YOU LL OWN • Direct multiple AI coding agents in parallel to design, build, test, and ship Android features in Kotlin against the Android SDK. • Take total ownership of a slice of the Android app - discovery, scoping, architecture, implementation, QA, release, monitoring, and iteration. • Run an engineer-as-a-team workflow - spawn agents for spec drafting, codegen, test generation, code review, refactoring, doc writing, and bug triage, then merge, judge, and ship. • Develop and defend a strong point of view on what good Android code looks like inside Grove s architecture (Clean Architecture, multi-module Gradle with base/middleware/data/app, MVVM with DataBinding, Koin for DI, Coroutines/Flow, Moshi) so you can critically review AI output and reject what doesn t meet our bar. • Design prompts, evals, and harnesses that make AI-assisted mobile development repeatable and measurable, not artisanal. • Stand up automation that closes the loop: Fastlane lanes, CircleCI checks, AppCenter/Play Console distribution, device test farms, telemetry-driven rollback, and AI-powered review gates. • Drive architecture decisions with AI as a research and prototyping partner - explore three options in a day instead of one in a week, including the path to introducing Jetpack Compose into a DataBinding/XML codebase. • Collaborate with other engineers on architecture and trade-offs - bring designs for review before you ship them. Solicit business context from PMs, designers, and platform engineers; don t guess in isolation. • Own production health autonomously - monitor Sentry, Datadog, Cloudflare, and Firebase to assess system health, triage incidents, and re-prioritize your own backlog without being asked. You set the queue; you don t wait for someone to tell you what s broken. • Mentor the Heady contractor team on AI-native workflows and share learnings with mobile peers. • Triage Sentry crashes, hotfix, and root-cause incidents with AI-assisted investigation and remediation (we already run Sentry s auto-fix agent - you ll push it further). ABOUT YOU • 5-8 years of professional Android development experience with a portfolio of shipped consumer apps at scale. • Native, demonstrable fluency with modern AI coding tooling (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex, agentic workflows) - you can walk us through a feature you shipped where AI did the majority of the coding and you did the orchestration. • Strong, opinionated taste in Kotlin and modern Android architecture (Clean Architecture, MVVM, multi-module Gradle, Koin for DI, Coroutines/Flow, Moshi) - and a clear point of view on when MVI or Compose is worth introducing. • Comfort working in a DataBinding/XML codebase today, with the judgment to drive a phased Compose migration when and where it s worth it (not a rewrite-from-scratch reflex). • Experience integrating with REST + JSON:API-style backends and the Shopify Buy/Checkout SDKs at consumer scale. • A bias toward owning end-to-end outcomes rather than handing off work at team boundaries - paired with the judgment to know when to pull another engineer in for an architecture review or business-context check. • Genuinely autonomous in operation: you read Sentry/Datadog/Firebase/Cloudflare dashboards on your own, prioritize your own queue, and don t need a manager to surface what s on fire. • Comfort writing prompts, evals, and guardrails - you treat AI as a system to be engineered, not a search box. • Sharp written communication - specify clearly, review rigorously, and explain decisions to teammates. You ll drive async standups, design reviews, and Slack debugging sessions with a distributed team. • A collaborative, ego-light disposition - orchestrators thrive when they care m...