AI-First iOS Engineer

Grove Collaborative

AI-First iOS Engineer creating innovative iOS applications for sustainability-focused consumer products company. Leading iOS development with AI tooling and taking total ownership of features and performance.

Posted 6/1/2026full-timeRemote • California, Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $175,000 - $225,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

FirebaseiOSSwift

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Direct multiple AI coding agents in parallel to design, build, test, and ship iOS features in Swift, UIKit, and (increasingly) SwiftUI.
Take total ownership of a slice of the iOS 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 iOS code looks like inside Grove's architecture (View Controllers + ViewState value types, AppController/Coordinator patterns, protocol-driven Services and Data Managers, Combine, modularized via local Swift Packages) 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, TestFlight 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, especially during the UIKit → SwiftUI migration.
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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5–8 years of professional iOS 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 Swift, UIKit, and SwiftUI, with experience leading UIKit → SwiftUI migrations on a real app (not a greenfield demo).
Comfortable in repos that use Coordinator/AppController patterns, protocol-driven Services and Data Managers, and value-type ViewModels — and willing to make pragmatic calls about which patterns to keep and which to retire.
Experience integrating with JSON:API-style backends (sideloaded relationships, sparse fieldsets) and Shopify storefront/checkout APIs 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.
Comfortable 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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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!

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Hard Skills & Tools

iOS developmentSwiftUIKitSwiftUIAI coding toolingJSON:API integrationShopify APIsautomationcode reviewarchitecture design

Soft Skills

autonomycollaborationcommunicationmentorshipjudgmentopinionated tastepragmatic decision-makingresult-orienteddesign critiqueteam orchestration