Role path
Team Lead / Engineering Manager
Lead the work and then the people: tech lead first, then engineering manager.
9 tools10 courses6 lines54 lessons open4 career stages33 h in total
Tools this role uses
The labs and templates for real work that the team lead / engineering manager route opens. Use them on the job today; the courses below teach why they work.
Senior engineer
Station 1GitHub for TeamsWork on a shared codebase the way strong teams do: push and pull safely, review pull requests, ship releases and hotfixes, plan in GitHub Projects, and let GitHub Actions check and deploy every change.Change to the System Design line
Station 2Running Software in ProductionLearn to see what your software is doing in production, keep it secure, and ship changes safely with a rollback that takes one command.- Station 3System Design Case StudiesLearn to run a design review, then use it on three complete case studies at Mangrove Market: a URL shortener, offline sales sync from store tills, and ordering that never oversells.
Tech lead
Change to the Leadership line
Station 4From Engineer to Tech LeadLead the technical work of a team: direction, design reviews, delegation, mentoring, predictable delivery and a working partnership with product and engineering management.Change to the Product Management line
Station 5Communication & LeadershipWrite memos that get a decision in one meeting, present answer-first to a managing director, lead people who don't report to you, prepare for PM interviews and grow as a PM or product leader.Engineering manager
Change to the Leadership line
Station 6Engineering ManagementLead people and teams: 1:1s, feedback and coaching, structured hiring, fair performance management, team design, delivery health, and managing up and across.Change to the Product Management line
Station 7Product DiscoveryFind out what users really need before you build, with story-based interviews, field visits, honest synthesis, cheap tests and one-day AI prototypes.Change to the Business & Finance line
Station 8Finance for Tech TeamsRead the numbers behind technology: P&L, unit economics, budgets, cloud costs, business cases and vendor deals.Senior manager
Change to the Product Management line
Station 9Strategy, Priorities & RoadmapsTurn a pile of requests into a clear strategy, outcome goals, a priority order that holds up in the meeting, an honest roadmap and sound build-or-buy decisions.Change to the Architecture line
Station 10Software and Solution ArchitectureMake and explain architecture decisions: quality attributes, styles, integration, cloud, cost and governance that lasts.