Technical Lead-Belfast at Factor
Belfast, ME
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Jul 1, 2026
Belfast, ME
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on technical lead role within a small, high-autonomy engineering team that builds custom software and AI/LLM-powered tools for legal workflow clients. The position splits time between writing full-stack code and managing a team of two to four engineers, covering architecture decisions, cloud infrastructure, and deployment pipelines. It suits an experienced engineer-manager comfortable working directly with clients and staying current with rapidly evolving AI tooling.
Senior level · 10+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 4,400 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer and information systems managers). range 2,650–6,600
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $178,991 (middle half $141,096–$225,584).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
This role is a genuine hybrid of hands-on engineering and people management (2–4 direct reports, 1:1s, hiring, career development). It was classified as 11-3021 (Computer and Information Systems Managers) because direct people management is an explicit, primary responsibility; however, the JD equally emphasizes individual-contributor coding, so 15-1252 (Software Developers) is a close runner-up.
The title carries no seniority level word, so the title states no level. The actual requirements (10+ years engineering, 2+ years managing, architecture ownership, client-facing leadership) support a Senior band — the management scope is small (2–4 engineers) and does not reach Director/Principal level.
JavaScript and TypeScript are listed together as a single stack requirement ('JavaScript/TypeScript'); both are emitted as separate skills per extraction rules, each with the other as an alternative, since they are distinct technologies both used in the stack.
AWS, Azure, and GCP are listed together as the cloud infrastructure requirement; AWS is emitted as the primary with Azure and GCP as alternatives.
Agentic coding tools are required ('e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Codex'); Claude Code is emitted as the primary with Cursor and Codex as alternatives.
GitHub Actions and Terraform/Bicep appear in the body under 'Manage cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines' (descriptive context) and are explicitly called out only under the Preferred section ('Experience with IaC and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions)'), so they are marked preferred.
Legal technology / LegalTech ecosystem experience is listed under Preferred and is omitted from the skills list as it names no specific technology or tool.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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