Staff Software Engineer (Architecture)

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
• Coach and elevate other engineers through code review and design discussions, not just their own output

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, 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

Preferred

• 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

Location

Hybrid - at least 3 days/wk in our Dallas, TX office

Strong Candidates Will

• 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
• 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

Benefits

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

About You

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.

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.
• These pillars of

LIGHT

are a reminder to our team that we are making a difference by providing guidance and support in navigating the often complex and confusing landscape of healthcare. We hope that through this

LIGHT

, individuals can find their way to the best care, resources, and support they need to get back to life.

If this sounds like you, we would love to connect to speak further about career opportunities at Lantern.

Please apply to our role & someone from our Talent Acquisition Team will reach out to help you navigate our interview process.

Lantern does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.