Director of Engineering, Lantern
3 days a week in office (Broadway, New York)
Speciality care platform
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Speciality care platform
501-1000 employees
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3 days a week in office (Broadway, New York)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help make excellent affordable care more accessible to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years leading engineering managers or senior technical leads
- Track record of standing up or restructuring engineering teams around new delivery models, such as pod-based or iterative, loop-based development
- Deep experience partnering with Product and QA to ship complex, customer-facing software at scale
- Strong technical judgment across modern architecture, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD practices
- Experience operating in a regulated or healthcare-adjacent environment is a plus
- 7+ years of experience in software development, with a strong proficiency in .NET Core, C#, Typescript, and/or Python
- Proven experience leading software development teams specializing in web applications and integrations
- Experience in modern JavaScript frameworks, NET Core, C#, Typescript, Python, REST APIs, SQL, etc
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Cloud-based development (Azure preferred)
- Move fast without sacrificing quality, balancing urgency with sound engineering judgment
- Communicate clearly and directly with both engineers and executive stakeholders
- Have built or scaled pod-based engineering structures from the ground up with direct connection to the business for rapid, iterative development
- Coach engineering managers, not just individual contributors
- Bring a builder’s mindset to process, comfortable defining how a new team should work rather than just executing an existing playbook
What the job involves
- Lantern Care is looking for a Director of Engineering to lead our Product Engineering organization
- This role owns feature delivery across multiple engineering pods, partnering closely with Product and business stakeholders to translate roadmap priorities into shipped, high–quality software
- You will report to the VP of Engineering and play a central role in maturing how our engineering teams plan, build, and iterate
- This is a hands–on leadership role for someone who has run engineering teams before and wants to build the next chapter of Lantern’s delivery model – standing up new pods, championing iterative, loop–based development practices, and raising the bar on execution across the organization
- Manage the delivery for multiple product engineering pods, ensuring predictable, high-quality releases against roadmap commitments
- Stand up and scale new engineering pods structured around iterative, agentic, loop-based development, defining team composition, cadence, and ways of working
- Partner with Product Management and business stakeholders to translate business requirements into executable work with clear context and constraints
- Maintain hands-on technical expertise in design, code, and deployments
- Coach and develop engineering managers and senior engineers, building a strong bench of technical leadership
- Drive engineering rigor and architecture standards via platform tools across the pods, including code quality, testing discipline, and architecture alignment, in partnership with QA and Architecture
- Drive scaled hiring, performance management, and career growth for the Product Engineering team
- Report on delivery health, velocity, risks, and escalations to senior leadership
- Champion adoption and experimental scale of Lantern’s AI-assisted SDLC tooling and practices within your pods
Our take
Lantern (formerly Employer Direct Healthcare/EDH) offers speciality healthcare solutions, such as surgery, cancer care, and now infusion therapy, to self-funded employers and their employees. It negotiates bundled pricing and coordinated care with vetted medical providers to keep costs down without compromising quality.
It serves over 6M members across hundreds of self-funded plans and about 1,000 employer clients (including multiple Fortune 500 companies and public-sector entities). Alongside this, it's curated a "Network of Excellence" with over 3,000 surgeons and oncologists and over 1,5000 facility partners nationwide.
In 2023, substantial growth capital from Insight Partners verified Lantern as a Unicorn. This investment has helped the firm grow its client base as well as expand its suite of products. Further strategic funding in 2026 will aid Latern's US expansion aims, supporting over 12 million members on their care journeys.
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Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2026
$30m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
May 2010
$1m
SERIES A
Total funding: $31m
Company benefits
- Paid Vacation
- Health Insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Paid Parental Leave
- Short & Long Term Disability
- Life and AD&D Insurance
- Commuter Spending
- Retirement Savings Plan
Company HQ
City Center District, Dallas, TX
Leadership
John Zutter
(CEO)Previously an Executive Vice President at Santander Consumer USA and J.P. Morgan.
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