Staff Software Engineer

About Lantern
Lantern is the specialty care platform connecting people with the best care when they need it most. By curating a Network of Excellence comprised of the nation's top specialists for surgery, cancer care, infusions and more, Lantern delivers excellent care with significant cost savings to employers and their workforces. Lantern also pairs members with a dedicated care team, including Care Advocates and nurses, for the entirety of their care journey, helping them get back to good health, back to their families and back to work. With convenient access to specialists nationwide, Lantern means quality care is within driving distance for most. Lantern is trusted by the nation's largest employers to deliver care to more than 6 million members across the country. Learn more

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Lantern is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our expanding product engineering pods. This is a strategic and highly visible role focused on driving your team’s 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.

Location:

Hybrid
- at least 3 days/wk in our Vancouver, BC Canada officeResponsibilities
Act as a senior contributor and technical leader across key domains, collaborating within and across multiple pods to deliver cohesive and scalable solutionsDrive 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 roadmapsGuide and mentor engineers, both formally and informally, on architecture best practices, technical growth, and system-level thinkingChampion code quality, testability, and design standards, providing deep technical reviews and working examples that elevate engineering excellenceEvaluate frameworks, tools, and integration strategies to support scale and interoperabilityContribute to and evolve Lantern’s internal technical excellence guidelines, reference implementations, and technical documentation, with an emphasis on innovation, AI integration, and long‑term maintainabilityLead technical discovery and prototyping for complex integrations and data flow challenges, including those involving FHIR, HL7, and KafkaInfluence technical direction and execution of multi‑team projects, ensuring delivery meets high standards of reliability, security, and performanceRequirements & Qualifications
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience8+ years of professional software development experience, with at least 3+ years in a senior, staff, or principal‑level roleProven 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 patternsHands‑on experience architecting solutions on Azure or AWS, including serverless functions, messaging queues, managed databases, and infrastructure as code (e.
G., Terraform, Bicep)Demonstrated ability to lead architectural initiatives that drive improvements in scalability, performance, reliability, and developer experienceStrong understanding of CI/CD, observability, DevSecOps, and secrets management best practicesExcellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills;
able to clearly explaincomplex technical topics to both technical and non‑technical audiencesNice to Have
Experience applying FHIR, HL7, or X12 standards within healthcare systemsExperience with AI/ML services or architectural contributions to innovation‑driven initiativesFamiliarity with cross‑cloud or hybrid‑cloud architectural design patternsStrong Candidates Will
Thrive in ambiguity, comfortable zooming out to evaluate systems holistically while staying hands‑on enough