New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How to find senior position focused on “pure” tech?
Ask HN: How to find senior position focused on “pure” tech?
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Hi HN! (Using an alt account to avoid exposing my identity to my current employer...) I've worked in $big_tech as a senior engineer for 5 years. I've worked different teams, but invariably being "senior" makes me the highest-level individual contributor on the team and I take up some sort of tech lead role. I've realized that I don't enjoy tech lead work [1] that much, and what really interests me is more "pure" tech work instead - coding and designing, plus the problem to solve is an interesting tech problem rather than a business one. This seems only possible if I am not the highest-level individual contributor on the team, in other words the team has to be staffed exclusively of senior engineers. The $big_corp I work for has some such teams (mostly teams working on core infrastructure or important libraries) but unfortunately not in my location (UK). So I'd like to look in the job market for such positions, but then I'm at a loss in how to find them. A search for keywords like "senior tech team" renders the same result as a search "senior tech position" which is not really what I want. Any tips? Or suggestions of interesting companies that have teams that satisfy my criteria and are hiring? Thanks. [1] I spend say 2/3 of my time planning projects, helping colleagues scope their work, matching tech decisions to business needs, plus doing some light "politicking" to get partner teams on the same page as my team.
4 by tmp404 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN! (Using an alt account to avoid exposing my identity to my current employer...) I've worked in $big_tech as a senior engineer for 5 years. I've worked different teams, but invariably being "senior" makes me the highest-level individual contributor on the team and I take up some sort of tech lead role. I've realized that I don't enjoy tech lead work [1] that much, and what really interests me is more "pure" tech work instead - coding and designing, plus the problem to solve is an interesting tech problem rather than a business one. This seems only possible if I am not the highest-level individual contributor on the team, in other words the team has to be staffed exclusively of senior engineers. The $big_corp I work for has some such teams (mostly teams working on core infrastructure or important libraries) but unfortunately not in my location (UK). So I'd like to look in the job market for such positions, but then I'm at a loss in how to find them. A search for keywords like "senior tech team" renders the same result as a search "senior tech position" which is not really what I want. Any tips? Or suggestions of interesting companies that have teams that satisfy my criteria and are hiring? Thanks. [1] I spend say 2/3 of my time planning projects, helping colleagues scope their work, matching tech decisions to business needs, plus doing some light "politicking" to get partner teams on the same page as my team.
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