Does anyone know the difference between a Team Lead Engineer and a Chapter Lead Engineer? Is any of the two higher in hierarchy?I’m in talks with two companies that offer these two positions and don’t know which to choose.

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If the company is big enough you'll be working on a team, and at the same time, you'll be part of a chapter. This is all the engineers with the same role from all teams.
A chapter lead is usually just a regular developer that carries the role of keeping the communication open amongst all devs with the same role regardless of each team's projects. Nevertheless your specific responsibilities will depend entirely on the company.
For the team lead role, it usually means you'll lead the technical part of your team's work.

You must ask both companies what are their expectations on your work. Make sure you know what you're getting into.

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Thanks a lot for the clarification! Do you know if hierarchically one is higher than the other?

Like Fuga1 states; ask!
Not only does it demonstrate your ability to dive deep and refine, it also simplifies your choice.

With us in an abstract way, the chapter version would be having a larger scope - across all teams in the chapter (like 'web'. Or client experience ') ;thus your ability to make impact are greater. The team version likely goes deeper technically (portals, or ciam etc)
Depending on the challenges at hand this may bring you impact abilities (ask!).

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I have two examples of companies that worked with chapter lead roles:

One is eBay classifieds group in the Netherlands. Their chapter lead is also the manager of the developers. It's a little weird because they don't work directly with you so they measure your performance with a 360 review.

The another example is Backbase. Thier chapter lead is not a manager for the developers but more of a developer/architect that orchestrates the way the frontend apps get developed and delivered (documents the technology stack, takes design desitions at a high level, manages the branching strategy, CI/CD, coordinates with all the teams, etc). But the people manager is the team leader.

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What county are you in? I've never heard of a "chapter" in an engineering context.

TIL, thanks!

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