AI-FirstAndroidEngineer

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 an