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Grove Collaborative is seeking a senior Android engineer to act as the single-threaded owner of a major Android app surface in an AI-native development environment. The engineer will direct multiple coding agents, build Kotlin/Android features, make architecture decisions, operate CI/CD automation, and own production monitoring and incident response. The role requires 5–8 years of Android experience, strong Kotlin and modern Android architecture expertise, and demonstrable experience orchestrating AI coding tools. It is a full-time remote position limited to candidates based in specified US states, with a disclosed base salary range of $175,000–$225,000 plus incentive eligibility and equity.
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Dear Hiring Team,
I am excited to apply for the AI-First Android Engineer role at Grove Collaborative. My background in Kotlin-based Android development, end-to-end ownership, and AI-assisted engineering workflows aligns strongly with your engineer-as-a-team model.
I can lead agent-driven feature delivery while maintaining rigorous architectural, testing, release, and production-health standards across modern Android systems. I would welcome the opportunity to help Grove scale reliable mobile experiences and advance AI-native development practices in support of its sustainability mission.
Sincerely,
[Your Name]
Sample interview questions
I would describe a concrete feature from discovery through release, including how I decomposed work into agent tasks for specification, implementation, tests, review, and documentation. I would explain the guardrails, human review points, evaluation criteria, and production metrics used to ensure the AI-generated output met quality standards.
I would preserve stable XML/DataBinding flows while selecting high-value, bounded screens or components for Compose adoption. I would establish interoperability patterns, test performance and behavioral parity, measure maintenance benefits, and migrate incrementally rather than undertake a risky rewrite.
I would use clearly scoped prompts, repository-aware context, coding standards, and automated checks for builds, linting, tests, security, and architecture rules. Generated changes would be reviewed against acceptance criteria and validated through emulator/device-farm testing before merge and release.
I would first assess user impact through Sentry, Firebase, Datadog, and release telemetry, then contain the issue with a rollback, feature flag, or hotfix as appropriate. After validating the root cause, I would add regression coverage, document the incident, and prioritize follow-up work that prevents recurrence.
I would present concise alternatives with trade-offs covering user impact, engineering effort, reliability, observability, and long-term maintenance. I would seek targeted input from product, design, and platform partners, make the decision explicit, and communicate the rationale and success measures asynchronously.
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 more about the result than the byline, and welcome a sharp design critique from a peer.
EVEN BETTER IF YOU HAVE
- 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.
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU
- This full-time, exempt position is remote for candidates based in the following states: California, Maine, Pennsylvania, Nevada, North Carolina, Texas, Colorado, Washington, Illinois, New York, Missouri, and Massachusetts.
- 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
- Working for a company that believes that a small group of people can change the world for the better by creating products and funding initiatives that help the planet!
COMPENSATION
The salary range for this role is $175,000-225,000. Our compensation bands are determined based on market-specific cost of living data, meaning that the top of our salary range is reserved for the most experienced candidates in the highest cost of living areas across the country. In addition to the base salary, this role is eligible for an annual incentive target and equity.
MORE ABOUT GROVE
Grove Collaborative Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GROV) is the one-stop online destination for everyday essentials that create a healthier home and planet. Explore thousands of thoughtfully vetted products for every room and everyone in your home, including household cleaning, personal care, health and wellness, laundry, clean beauty, kitchen, pantry, kids, baby, pet care, and beyond. Everything Grove sells meets a higher standard — from health to sustainability and performance — so you get a great value without compromising your values. As a B Corp and Public Benefit Corporation, Grove goes beyond selling products: every order is carbon neutral, supports plastic waste cleanup initiatives, and lets you see and track the positive impact of your choices. Shopping with purpose starts at Grove.com.
We’re building a diverse and inclusive work environment where we learn from each other. We welcome people of diverse backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to Talent@grove.co.
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