[gabeidx]

It sounds like you lack a Staff engineer that can be your number 2 on the team.

It's invaluable to have someone that can champion these technical aspects of the job. It doesn't mean that you need to relinquish all technical work to them, but having someone you can trust to keep the team technically solid and keep you in the loop when you inevitably have to focus on non-technical stuff, is key to a high performant team in my experience.