Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. 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. They are seeking an AI-First Android Engineer who will take total ownership of Android features, utilizing AI to enhance productivity and code quality while mentoring others in AI-native workflows.
Responsibilities
- 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)
Skills
- 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 more about the result than the byline, and welcome a sharp design critique from a peer
- Experience designing custom agents, MCP tools, or AI-assisted code review pipelines
- Experience leading an XML/DataBinding → Jetpack Compose migration on a production app
- Strong command of Coroutines, Flow, and structured concurrency patterns
- Comfort with the Grove-adjacent stack: Shopify SDK (Buy/Checkout), Stripe, Heap, Braze, AppsFlyer, Sentry, Firebase, Contentful, Constructor.io, Bazaar Voice, WorkManager
- Familiarity with Cicerone (or similar) for navigation and Spek/Kluent/Espresso for testing — or a strong opinion on what should replace them
- CI/CD for Android: Fastlane, CircleCI, AppCenter, Play Console automation, Gradle build optimization, version catalogs
- Subscription / e-commerce mobile experience — selling plans, recurring orders, cart-sidecar contracts, OOS handling at scale
- Exposure to feature flags, experimentation platforms, and analytics instrumentation
- Experience contributing to a team's shift toward AI-native development practices
Benefits
- Competitive benefits - medical, vision, dental
- Equity - shared success is core to our mission
- Flexible Paid Time Off - we care most about results
- Free VIP membership and 50% employee discount
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