Staff Software Engineer (Architecture)

Lantern•Dallas, TX

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

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. 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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

Experience working in highly regulated industries such as healthcare, financial services, government, insurance, banking, etc.
Experience applying FHIR, HL7, or X12 standards within healthcare systems
Familiarity with cross-cloud or hybrid-cloud architectural design patterns
Thrive in ambiguity, comfortable zooming out to evaluate systems holistically while staying hands-on enough to dive into code and unblock teams
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
Balance architectural rigor with engineering velocity and product needs, rather than optimizing for either in isolation
Take ownership at the system level, driving multi-team initiatives to completion rather than staying within a single service’s boundaries

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 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