Technical lead for the team that's ready to move faster.
A technical lead is the senior developer who sets technical direction, reviews code, mentors junior developers, and makes the architecture calls. They build, but they also shape how the rest of the team builds.
Need a technical lead to set standards, make architecture decisions, and level up a junior engineering team
The difference between a senior developer and a technical lead:
Senior developer: Builds complex features independently. High individual output. Deep expertise in specific areas.
Technical lead: All of the above, plus: establishes the patterns that other developers follow. Reviews code for quality and consistency. Makes the judgment calls on technical direction. Acts as the technical point of contact for the product.
What a technical lead provides to the team:
Code review: Not gatekeeping — teaching. Code reviews that explain why a pattern is better, not just that it should change.
Standards documentation: ADRs (Architecture Decision Records) for significant decisions. Why Drizzle instead of Prisma. Why Clerk instead of Auth.js. The reasoning that prevents re-opening the same decisions.
Architecture guardrails: Preventing the patterns that create long-term technical debt. Establishing patterns that scale.
Technical onboarding: New developers ramp up faster when there are clear standards and an experienced person to ask.
Technical leadership engagement: architecture decisions, code review standards, and engineering culture established
Code review
on all significant PRs
Architecture decisions
documented with rationale
Coding standards
established and enforced
Technical onboarding
documentation
Junior developer
mentorship
One honest number to start.
Fixed-scope, fixed-price. The number below is the starting point — final scope is built from your brief.
Technical leadership engagement: architecture decisions, code review standards, and engineering culture established
Three steps, every time.
The same repeatable engagement on every project. No surprises, no mystery, no billable ambiguity.
Brief & discovery.
We send you questions, then get on a call. Output: a written scope with every step, feature, and integration listed.
Build & ship.
Fixed schedule, weekly reviews. No scope creep unless you change the scope — and if you do, we reprice it transparently.
Warranty & retainer.
30-day warranty on every launch. Most clients stay on a monthly retainer for ongoing features and maintenance.
Why Fixed-Price Matters Here
Technical lead engagement scope is the team size and the output cadence. Monthly retainer, defined involvement.
Questions, answered.
Yes. Code review via GitHub, architecture discussions via Loom and Slack, weekly sync. Async-first technical leadership works well for distributed teams.
Tell Ryel about your project.
Describe what you’re building and what outcome you need. You’ll have a written, fixed-price scope within the week.