AI-First Android Engineer

Grove Collaborative

AI-First Android Engineer at Grove Collaborative, creating sustainable consumer products through modern AI-driven Android development. Leading Android features and mentoring teams in innovative mobile practices.

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

AndroidFirebaseGradleKotlin

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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).

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.

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

KotlinAndroid SDKClean ArchitectureMVVMmulti-module GradleKoinCoroutinesFlowMoshiREST

Soft Skills

autonomous operationstrong written communicationcollaborative dispositionjudgmentmentoringownership of outcomesdesign critiqueorchestrationproblem-solvingteam collaboration