Technical Leadership
Guiding technical decisions and maintaining engineering excellence while balancing hands-on work with leadership responsibilities.
Core Areas
- Architecture Design: System design and architectural decision making
- Code Quality & Reviews: Maintaining high standards and effective review processes
- DevOps Understanding: Infrastructure, deployment, and operational concerns
- Technical Debt Management: Balancing feature development with code health
Level Progression
Technical leadership expectations change as management scope increases:
- EM1: Hands-on technical contribution, team-level decisions
- EM2: Reduced coding, cross-team technical influence
- EM3: Strategic technical thinking, department-level impact
- EM4+: Setting technical direction, minimal hands-on coding