Staff Software Engineer, Lantern

• We are looking for someone who thrives in ambiguity, can zoom out to evaluate systems holistically, but is not afraid to dive into code to unblock teams or lead by example
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of professional software development experience, with at least 3+ years in a senior, staff, or principal-level role
• Proven track record designing and building distributed systems, APIs, and cloud-native services using .NET Core (C#) and modern front-end frameworks (React or Angular)
• Experience with AI/ML services or architectural contributions to innovation-driven initiatives
• Strong experience in domain-driven design (DDD), microservices, and event-driven architectures using tools such as Apache Kafka (or similar platforms like RabbitMQ, AWS SNS/SQS), including familiarity with saga patterns
• Hands-on experience architecting solutions on Azure or AWS, including serverless functions, messaging queues, managed databases, and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Bicep)
• Solid experience with CRM integration design, particularly with Salesforce, and other external systems requiring structured API-based data exchange and synchronization
• Demonstrated ability to lead architectural initiatives that drive improvements in scalability, performance, reliability, and developer experience
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, observability, DevSecOps, and secrets management best practices
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills; able to clearly explain complex technical topics to both technical and non-technical audiences

Desirable

• Lantern is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our expanding Architecture team. This is a strategic and highly visible role focused on driving architectural consistency, elevating technical standards, and helping scale our cloud-native healthcare platform to meet the needs of patients, care advocates, and enterprise clients
• As a Staff Engineer, you’ll partner with cross-functional teams – including engineering leads, product managers, clinicians, and compliance – to influence the design and delivery of scalable, secure, and maintainable systems. You will provide hands-on technical leadership across the stack while guiding engineering teams through complex architectural decisions, platform evolution, and modernization initiatives
• If you enjoy solving complex system design problems, mentoring other engineers, and enabling organizational scale through thoughtful architecture, we’d love to hear from you
• Act as a senior architecture contributor and technical leader across key domains, collaborating with multiple pods to deliver cohesive and scalable solutions
• Lead modularization and platform decoupling efforts to reduce tech debt, improve maintainability, and empower team-level ownership
• Drive system design and architecture for secure, resilient, and performant services using modern cloud-native technologies (Azure preferred)
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and compliance partners to ensure architectural alignment with business priorities, regulatory constraints, and product roadmaps
• Guide and mentor engineers, both formally and informally, on architecture best practices, technical growth, and system-level thinking
• Champion code quality, testability, and design standards, providing deep technical reviews and working examples that elevate engineering excellence
• Evaluate frameworks, tools, and integration strategies, including Salesforce and other CRM platforms, to support scale and interoperability
• Contribute to and evolve Lantern’s internal architecture guidelines, reference implementations, and technical documentation, with an emphasis on innovation, AI integration, and long-term maintainability
• Lead technical discovery and prototyping for complex integrations and data flow challenges, including those involving FHIR, HL7, and Kafka
• Influence technical direction and execution of multi-team projects, ensuring delivery meets high standards of reliability, security, and performance