What Nobody Tells You About Being a Tech Lead

Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The tech lead role is one of the most misunderstood positions in engineering. It’s not a title, it’s a set of responsibilities. It’s not a promotion, it’s a lateral move into a fundamentally different kind of work. And it’s where most engineers first discover whether they enjoy leadership, or whether they’d rather stay deep in the code.

I’ve been a tech lead multiple times across my career, and I still think it’s the hardest role in engineering. Not because the problems are the most complex technically, but because you’re pulled in three directions simultaneously and nobody tells you how to balance them.

Tech-Lead on guy@secdev.uk

What Nobody Tells You About Being a Tech Lead