Senior Engineer / Tech Lead difference making
Apr 17, 2021
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As a senior engineer/ to be tech lead, how do you make difference in your team? Do you proactively take tech debts to make systems better? Do you proactively do refactoring? Do you continuously strive for developer productivity? Or you spend most of the time on sprint / product road map items?
My problem is I don't have any good project right now. So the manager is pushing me to solve shitty things and make a difference in the team. But the issues have been created since long time. It took them 7+ years to create these tech debts. How do I navigate in this scenario? How do I make a difference as a senior in the team to create path for tech lead?
Yor: 6+
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Fixing items created but someone else will not get you anywhere, you need to be able to see problems or opportunities noone else saw and propose solutions.
First step would be to stop listening to what your manager tells you to work on and figure out how you can best move your team/org/company forward.
Most important thing is to make sure your priority aligns with your management.