Staff Software Engineer, Lantern

• 8+ years of professional software development experience, with at least 3+ years in a senior/staff/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)
• 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
• Experience working in regulated domains such as HIPAA and familiarity with healthcare applications or platforms
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• You use LOGIC in your decision making and understand that progress is critical to making change. You focus on the execution of your content while balancing a fast-paced environment and you take the time to celebrate both the small & big wins
• INCLUSION is a core tenant of your personal beliefs. A diverse and inclusive environment is incredibly important to you. You understand and desire to be a part of a diverse team with different experiences and perspectives & you cherish the differences in each individual that you interact with
• You have the GRIT, drive and ambition to tackle big problems. Big problems require big ideas and a team that supports new ideas
• You care deeply for your customers are driven to keep HUMANITY in all decisions. Your customers aren’t just the individuals using your product. They are the driving factor in your motivation to make a change
• Integrity guides you in life. Focusing on the TRUTH vs. giving people the answers they want to hear
• You thrive in a Team Environment. Collaboration is key in innovation and creating change

Desirable

• Lantern is seeking a Staff Software Engineer (Architecture) to join our expanding Architecture team
• This is a strategic and evident 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
• 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
• 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