--- title: Technical Lead Roles and Responsibilities in 2021 description: A lot of developers want to become technical leaders at some point in their careers. The role may seem shiny from the outside, there's a lot more underneath... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/technical-lead-roles-and-responsibilities-in-2021-ee5-rkjx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Technical Lead Roles and Responsibilities in 2021 | daily.dev og:description: A lot of developers want to become technical leaders at some point in their careers. The role may seem shiny from the outside, there's a lot more underneath... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/technical-lead-roles-and-responsibilities-in-2021-ee5-rkjx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/EE5_rKjx-.png og:image:alt: Technical Lead Roles and Responsibilities in 2021 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Technical Lead Roles and Responsibilities in 2021 **[Honeypot](https://daily.dev/sources/honeypot)** 路 5 min read 路 27 upvotes 路 9 comments ## Summary A lot of developers want to become technical leaders at some point in their careers. The role may seem shiny from the outside, there's a lot more underneath the surface. In this article, I'd like to break down the key roles and responsibilities of a technical lead plus some guidelines for success. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@idabida** 路 5 upvotes > I kinda want my teamlead to read this, haha, would it be too rude to forward it? 馃槄 **@ashan** 路 3 upvotes > Great insight Yasas!! **@chocoelho** 路 2 upvotes > "It doesn't matter how fluent you are technical if don鈥檛 have people management skills you're going to struggle. " is one of the most important takeaways of this article. --- Tags: [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/technical-lead-roles-and-responsibilities-in-2021-ee5-rkjx) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Technical Lead Roles and Responsibilities in 2021","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/technical-lead-roles-and-responsibilities-in-2021-ee5-rkjx","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/technical-lead-roles-and-responsibilities-in-2021-ee5-rkjx"},"datePublished":"2021-10-14T09:41:59.477Z","dateModified":"2021-10-14T09:41:59.477Z","description":"A lot of developers want to become technical leaders at some point in their careers. 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