Ask Maria: How do I balance all my work without hiring?

8 minutes

I have an overwhelming amount of responsibilities within my company and there’s no way for me to delegate or diversify efforts, let alone grow in my career. Can you help?

I have been a tech lead in a small startup for the past three years. Apart from myself, there’s one other software engineer in the team who works on a very specific part of our back-end systems. That leaves everything else i.e., the frontend, other back-end systems, databases, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps, under my management.

I am very stretched between these roles and areas of expertise, but we have not been able to hire new engineers due to slow growth.

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