# LeadDev StaffPlus 2025: My Top Takeaways

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Author: Doximity

Published: 2025-12-02T13:27:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Doximity](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/doximity.md>)

Topics: [Tech Lead](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tech-lead.md>), [Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming.md>)

Tags: [conference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/conference.md>), [leadership](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/leadership.md>), [management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/management.md>), [software-engineer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-engineer.md>), [tech-lead](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tech-lead.md>)

## AI overview

A Staff Software Engineer at Doximity reflects on takeaways from LeadDev StaffPlus NY, focusing on egoless leadership, delegating programming work, and elevating colleagues to increase engineering impact.

## Source excerpt

As a newly minted Staff Software Engineer at Doximity, I've been looking for ways to maximize my impact on the teams I support. My mandate as a Staff Software Engineer is to solve the kinds of problems that affect every team in my umbrella, not just the one team where I do my own IC work. That's a big change from my previous role as tech lead of a small team. I've enjoyed following LeadDev's content, from blog posts and videos to webinars, so attending a LeadDev conference has been on my bucket list for a while. I got my chance when I learned they were hosting their conference in New York City for StaffPlus engineers (engineering leaders who are in roles anywhere from Staff to Distinguished Engineer). I came away from the conference with a lot of ideas on how to improve my impact as an engineering leader and a plan to get more traction on a difficult project I've been leading. Here are some of the highlights from my experience at StaffPlus NY. Lead Without Ego Image: Katie Sylor-Miller during her talk "Mind the gap: Navigating the Staff+ Performance Cliff" Katie Sylor-Miller's talk "Mind the gap: Navigating the Staff+ Performance Cliff" was fantastic. She emphasized the need for egoless leadership and touched on the benefits you reap when you lead with humility. In particular, as StaffPlus engineers, we're not meant to be writing and shipping all the code all the time. We're meant to give those opportunities to other engineers on our teams and build them up. This wasn't new advice to me, but it's worth hearing again and again as I develop in my technical leadership position. It was particularly useful as it connected with a technical project I've been working on that has grown in scope. I've been feeling an increasing burden that I can't do all the coding and project management this project requires with the resources I have, on top of my other responsibilities. I realized during Katie's talk that I can move my project forward by delegating more of the programming t