What does a lead programmer do?

All sorts, really. Primarily, I'm in charge of managing a team of gameplay engineers. I also work with production on scheduling the work that the team has to do. Do a lot of bug fixing, trying to look at critical issues as they come down. Things that might be stopping us pushing to Evocati, for example. They often get put on the leads' plates first for us to assess and then assign out as needed. Just generally, a day in the office is just a busy mix of emails, Skype, Jiras, bug fixing, occasionally a little bit of feature work, maybe a few meetings. So it's really just a little bit of everything, but really good fun.