[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer, Integrations and Internal Systems @Grove Collaborative

Role Description

This isn't a role for someone waiting to be told what to build. We want a true self-starter: endlessly curious, genuinely ambitious, and humble enough to be trusted with real influence.

This person will own our internal systems integrations and the delivery of our MCP layer. You'll keep the lights on while identifying incremental improvements, and build the layer that enables the business to become builders and lets agents do real work safely. You'll spend time in both worlds, often in the same week, sometimes in the same day.

You're an enabler with a high level of ownership, ready to flex whatever muscle the day calls for. An integration breaks — you fix it. The business needs new functionality — you build it. Our MCP layer needs a new connection — you stand it up.

You think beyond the fix. We don't just want someone who keeps integrations running — we want someone who's constantly looking for the opportunity to simplify and consolidate them. You know the difference between patching something and rebuilding it onto better infrastructure, and you have a bias toward leaving every system you touch better than you found it, not just functional.

AI isn't an add-on here — it's how the work gets done. This is an AI-enabled role in an AI-enabled organization. You'll use AI tooling to write code, maintain the environment, and move faster across a wider surface area than one engineer could otherwise cover. It's not a tool you reach for occasionally; it's part of your everyday process.

We're just getting started building the infrastructure that lets everyone in the business become a builder. There's no finished playbook. Our MCP layer doesn't have an established pattern for security, access control, or agent tooling yet — you'll help write it, in partnership with the people who own the roadmap.

What You’ll Own

• Back-office integrations
  • Maintain and enhance the integrations connecting NetSuite, HighJump, our data warehouse, and adjacent systems.
  • Rebuild individual flows onto better infrastructure when it makes sense to, and know the difference between a fix and a rebuild.
  • Go beyond maintenance to actively look for ways to simplify and consolidate our integration landscape.
• Grove Brain / internal MCP layer
  • Build Grove Brain out from its current early stage into a durable platform other teams build on.
  • Design and implement the connectors and tools that let agents act on real Grove systems.
• Security, access, and governance for agents
  • Help define and build how agents authenticate, what they're allowed to touch, and how that's audited.
• Hands-on enablement
  • Be the person a team calls when they're stuck mid-build on an integration or an agent problem.
• Judgment calls
  • Decide when a systems problem is yours to solve and when it's actually a process problem that belongs to the business.
• AI-assisted development
  • Use AI tooling aggressively as a force multiplier, and hold the line on quality while you do it.
• Craft, performance, and quality
  • Own performance, stability and maintainability in the code you ship, at the scale Grove actually runs at.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating building and maintaining production system integrations.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals.
• Genuine hands-on experience with AI tools and, ideally, agent frameworks or MCP.
• Comfortable operating with a rough direction instead of a finished spec.
• A builder's mindset.
• Enough security instinct to ask the right questions about what an agent should and shouldn't be able to touch.
• Background with Airflow, Airbyte, or similar data-pipeline infrastructure.
• New technology doesn’t scare you.
• You work well with others.
• A real sense of ownership and pride in the experiences you ship and the code you leave behind.
• Genuine enthusiasm for Grove’s mission and sustainability values.

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.
• Working for a company that believes that a small group of people can change the world for the better.

Compensation

The salary range for this role is $144,000-185,000. 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.