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This video. I'm going to talk about what a tech lead actually does and dispel some of the myth out there. Hey, my name is Caleb King. I'm a software engineer and I've noticed a lot of people have confusion between tech lead team, lead software architect. So I wanted to use that video to actually clear simple at up. This video is sponsored by a level up program level of programing, the complete developer guide. You need to level up your career. The people in tech team interviewed 50 different IP experts over the last two years. And we got their tips and tricks and created a complete guide to help you level up in your career. Join the waitlist now. Get 25% off the audio book. The e-book and the course that's coming out later this year. And all you have to do is go to books that people in tech got you to sign up for that wait list for what is a tech lead The technical lead or tech lead is usually someone with leadership responsibilities on a team focused on the technical aspects of software development. Typically, a tech lead is promoted from the ranks of regular software engineer, many tech leads. They usually still write code, but not all the time that the balance that with other responsibilities to trigger a dove into an amp. But let me actually talk about something that gets confused all the time. Tech lead versus team lead. The why is Tech Lever's team lead dilemma even a thing? For starters, there's no standardization. A job title across the industry. Job titles are written at the discretion of the company, and as long as the organization doesn't break any of its addiction laws save by paying different salaries to people with the same job title, everything is fair game. There's close to no standardization when it comes to the software development process itself. While many companies use agile methodologies, many really are still stuck on waterfall. When I was even hard for me to say. Even among organizations that have undergone the Agile transformation, there's no consensus on terminology because Agile methodology, it's almost like they encourage you to be agile within Agile, which means you need to use us but make it work for yourself. And when it comes to the specific case of tech lead and team lead, there are two important additional factors. Both terms look like each other and if you think about it, it's only two letters that are different. And even if you think they shouldn't be interchangeable, they often are. So based on my own experience in conversations with other professionals, let's now reach a verdict regarding this dilemma. Unlike a tech lead, a team leader doesn't need a technical background. I've seen team leaders who they just have, like, the best soft skills, but everybody the team knows or not the tech lead. So don't call them a team. I've seen on a few different places, but I've also seen the team really not code at all, which I thought was unique, but that was a pattern I announced. Furthermore, Team Lead is typically not concerned with the nitty gritty details of the team technical choices starting like a mini manager to a manager. You might see there's a bigger organization where this particular person has a particular set of skills that is valuable to the team. But the organization, even though I hired him as a software engineer, they're like, Hey, maybe, maybe that's not where they strive and maybe we're going to put them on a management track. Now, what does a tech lead did? And most importantly, what can't they do now? Tech Lead are not managers. They usually have all the responsibility, but none of the authority, success or tech leads. You are innovating, motivating, and advocating for your team. Most of the time we're speaking to stakeholders, engineering managers, members of your team or yourself. Maybe you're trying to get it together. I've been there and potentially make choices regarding programing, languages, frameworks and other tools, but they're not the decision maker. Data to voice holds a certain amount of weight that you probably don't have as units of regular software engineer. Now, as some organizations, the tech leader, someone who's on the path of becoming a software architect, but like I mentioned before, it really depends because some tech leads want to become engineering managers or directors. So they get to look at the tech lead role as like an opportunity to stand out to kind of show I have leadership skills and I want to demonstrate leadership skills and having that unofficial title as tech lead. And that's a step in the right direction. Now. One thing I want to point out, most organizations don't even have the title Tech Lead or team leader, just a senior software engineer, staff engineer, and they're to give you all the leadership responsibility. And like I said, there's no standardization with title, so try not to get caught with that. But that's one thing I want to preface you guys with, because you might be on LinkedIn looking for a job and it's a lead software engineer, but I guarantee you most of the time they won't say your H.R. profiles lead to say senior or just say experience engineer or something of that nature. Now, what skills do you need to be a good tech leader? Being a successful tech lead, it's much more than just having an impressive resume and skillset as the ability to establish trust, excellent communication skills, leadership style that reflects a team always asking a question Why likable personality? You'd be surprised. Like no one wants to take lead at the part of my friends, but that's top notch management skills. Be able to take ownership and usually have the technical skill to oversee a project, you know, to be the best developer. But you got to be able to hang with the big dogs and you need be able to drive and lead that confrontation and challenge other senior engineers on the thought process or implementation details, best practices. You need to be able to at least have those conversations. Now, let's talk about what they make and then let me talk about some of the challenges. Usually a tech lead because they fall under senior engineer at most places. Average salary is about $121,000 so you can make great money as a tech lead again. It's like the first step toward getting promoted. Continue on where you work or telling your manager or leadership or organized action, I want to be an architect. I want to be a staff engineer. I want to be an engineer, a manager or a director one day. Usually I take lead role depending on where you work. It's like the first step of what type of career do I want to have after programing or maybe more programing in the future? Well, no. The challenge, like I said earlier, is you're almost like a mini manager in some cases because let me tell you this if you're a smaller organization and you're a tech lead, you're more in multiple hands with coaching and mentoring. You're coding you're trying to say up today your time of your code of use. You might have one or two people in your team who are rockstar engineers, but just damn near impossible to work with. They got all the technical skills and you have to somehow keep them engaged without letting them go too far off the rails. That's where B the tech leading can be challenging because again, you're in charge, but you have no authority. You're not having H.R. reviews, you're not talking about promotions or raises, but the engineering manager is going to be like, Hey, how's Caleb doing this quarter? How did you on this project? Your input is going to have a significant amount of weight on whether somebody like me gets promoted or maybe the next cycle. It's a weird spot because you almost feel like you could do the engineering manager role or the software architect role, depending on where you work, but you're not doing that per se. The other question you might be asking, Do I need a degree? No, you do, but you will need excellent soft skills and hard skills if you want to be an effective tech lead. Being able to communicate is very important as a tech lead and then be able to manage personalities because like I said earlier, you might have a great team where you have junior and senior. You're going to be managing all that without trying to pull your hair out. Trust me, I've done it and get my hair back. I'm doing okay now. Tech Lead is awesome role because it's a great step in the right direction. But what do we miss? Are you a tech lead that I change your mind? Do you like the idea that tech leading team lead and can be interchangeable? That I get anything wrong? Let me know in the comments below. But that's all we got for you guys. Take out