Definition: A tech lead is a senior engineer who guides the technical direction of a team, owning architecture decisions, code quality and delivery while still writing code, usually without formal people-management duties.
Typical duties include breaking work into tasks, setting coding standards, reviewing pull requests, making or facilitating design decisions, unblocking teammates, managing technical debt and translating product needs into technical plans.
An engineering manager focuses on people, hiring and career growth. A solutions architect focuses on system design across teams or for customers. In many companies the tech lead and engineering manager work as a pair.
On AI projects the tech lead also decides how models, retrieval, evals and application code fit together, and keeps the team focused on shipping to production rather than running endless experiments. That includes setting a clear definition of done for model quality before work starts.
Ryz AI pods typically include a tech lead alongside ML and backend engineers, and Ryz tech leads also join existing teams, reporting to your leads.
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