Staff Software Engineer

Join Lantern, a cloud-native healthcare platform, as a Staff Software Engineer. In this strategic role, you'll drive architectural consistency, elevate technical standards, and help scale our platform to meet the needs of patients, care advocates, and enterprise clients. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, provide hands-on technical leadership, and mentor engineers. The position offers a range of benefits, including paid vacation, health insurance, and a retirement savings plan.

• Act as a senior contributor and technical leader across key domains, collaborating within and across multiple pods to deliver cohesive and scalable solutions.
• Drive system design and architecture for secure, resilient, and performant services using modern cloud-native technologies (Azure preferred).
• Guide and mentor engineers, both formally and informally, on architecture best practices, technical growth, and system-level thinking.

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Demonstrated ability to lead architectural initiatives that drive improvements in scalability, performance, reliability, and developer experience
• 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
• 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)
• 8+ years of professional software development experience, with at least 3+ years in a senior, staff, or principal-level role
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Hands-on experience architecting solutions on Azure or AWS, including serverless functions, messaging queues, managed databases, and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Bicep)
• Take ownership at the system level, driving multi-team initiatives to completion rather than staying within a single service’s boundaries
• Balance architectural rigor with engineering velocity and product needs, rather than optimizing for either in isolation
• Communicate complex architectural trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Coach and elevate other engineers through code review and design discussions, not just their own output
• Thrive in ambiguity, comfortable zooming out to evaluate systems holistically while staying hands-on enough to dive into code and unblock teams
• Strong Candidates Will:
• 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 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
• 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
• You have the GRIT, drive and ambition to tackle big problems. Big problems require big ideas and a team that supports new ideas
• You thrive in a Team Environment. Collaboration is key in innovation and creating change
• Integrity guides you in life. Focusing on the TRUTH vs. giving people the answers they want to hear
• Experience with AI/ML services or architectural contributions to innovation-driven initiatives
• Familiarity with cross-cloud or hybrid-cloud architectural design patterns
• Experience applying FHIR, HL7, or X12 standards within healthcare systems