Managing Up: Senior Peers

There's more to working in tech than just shipping software. It's vital for your career to build deep professional relationships and make real friends at work, especially if you're looking to grow to senior levels.

Being a good manager is hard enough already - It's even tougher for engineering. Learn more about this complex craft and how you can land a stellar engineering manager yourself.

Becoming a tech lead is the most common growth path for software engineers as they grow to senior and staff levels.

Taro offers advice for tech leads who want to manage their projects or teams more effectively

A tech lead is responsible for guiding multiple software engineers throughout the execution of a project. They usually have many years of software engineer experience and system design knowledge to help them navigate through complex software engineering situations. They work with multiple stakeholders to ensure that a project is delivered on time. They also set expectations for deliverables and quality of the project.

A tech lead drives projects and teams to meet their goals

Doing this properly is a hard requirement for professional success. As a software engineer in particular, this relationship needs to be carefully navigated to achieve maximum impact.