Staff Software Engineer (Architecture - USA)

Position Overview

Lantern, a specialty care platform trusted by some of the nation's largest employers, is seeking a Staff Software Engineer (Architecture) to join its expanding Architecture team. In this strategic role, you will drive architectural consistency, elevate technical standards, and scale our cloud-native healthcare platform to serve patients, care advocates, and enterprise clients. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams—including engineering, product, clinical, and compliance—to influence system design and modernize our offerings. Location: Remote USA

If you thrive in ambiguity, enjoy solving complex system design challenges, and value collaboration in a fast-paced environment, we would love to speak with you about career opportunities at Lantern.

Key Responsibilities

• 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 technical 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 and regulatory constraints.
• Guide and mentor engineers on architectural best practices and system-level thinking.
• Champion code quality, testability, and design standards through deep technical reviews and practical examples.
• 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 and technical documentation, emphasizing 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 the technical direction and execution of multi-team projects, ensuring delivery meets high standards of reliability, security, and performance.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience, with at least 3+ years in a senior/staff/principal-level role.
• Proven track record in 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, including tools such as Apache Kafka (or similar platforms like RabbitMQ, AWS SNS/SQS) and 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 systems requiring structured API-based data exchange.
• Demonstrated ability to lead architectural initiatives improving scalability, performance, reliability, and developer experience.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, observability, DevSecOps, and secrets management best practices.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience applying FHIR, HL7, or X12 standards within healthcare systems.
• Experience with AI/ML services or making architectural contributions to innovation-driven initiatives.
• Familiarity with cross-cloud or hybrid-cloud architectural design patterns.

Benefits & Perks

• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Short & Long Term Disability
• Life Insurance
• 401k with company match
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave