Remote Android Engineering Team Lead – Canada

Very LLC; United States; Remote; USD 81,000 - 99,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Group RRSP match

Cell/internet stipend

Home office stipend

Extended healthcare, dental, andvision

Professional development stipend

Loaned MacBook Pro

Annual team retreat

Job summary

Very is a fully distributed technology firm operating remotely from Canada with clients worldwide. As an Android Engineering Team Lead, you’ll guide a 3–5 person Android team embedded in a client’s engineering organization, building system-level apps for an AOSP-based Android TV product, including a launcher, settings and setup experiences.

You’ll balance technical leadership with people management in a long-term role, owning delivery while staying hands-on across the stack.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience with Android (Kotlin/Java).
• 2+ years directly leading engineers, including hiring and performance reviews.
• Experience with embedded or resource-constrained devices is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and grow a team of 3 to 5 Android engineers.
• Review designs and code, and set engineering standards for Kotlin and system apps.
• Own the team’s AOSP build, flashing and release processes, including OTA updates.
• Collaborate with client engineering and product leaders to meet sprint commitments.
• Oversee the React Native home experience and JS/TS ads SDK alongside Kotlin apps.
• Lead production support and incident response for the team.

Skills

Team leadership

Android development

Kotlin

Java

JavaScript

TypeScript

Mentoring

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

repo

Soong/Android.bp

adb

logcat

Perfetto

Dumpsys

Job description

Very is a fully distributed technology firm operating remotely from Canada with clients worldwide. As an Android Engineering Team Lead, you’ll guide a 3–5 person Android team embedded in a client’s engineering organization, building system-level apps for an AOSP-based Android TV product, including a launcher, settings and setup experiences.

You’ll balance technical leadership with people management in a long-term role, owning delivery while staying hands-on across the stack.