Staff Software Engineer

The role

This role drives architectural consistency and technical standards for a cloud-native healthcare platform. You will partner with cross-functional teams to design and deliver scalable, secure, and maintainable systems.

What you will do

• Act as a senior contributor and technical leader across multiple pods
• Drive system design and architecture for cloud-native services
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and compliance partners
• Guide and mentor engineers on architecture and technical growth
• Champion code quality, testability, and design standards
• Evaluate frameworks, tools, and integration strategies
• Evolve internal technical excellence guidelines and documentation
• Lead technical discovery and prototyping for complex integrations
• Influence technical direction and execution of multi-team projects

Required qualifications

• 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
• 3+ years in a senior, staff, or principal-level role
• Experience designing and building distributed systems, APIs, and cloud-native services using .NET Core (C#) and modern front-end frameworks (React or Angular)
• Experience in domain-driven design (DDD), microservices, and event-driven architectures using tools such as Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SNS/SQS, including familiarity with saga patterns
• Experience architecting solutions on Azure or AWS, including serverless functions, messaging queues, managed databases, and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Bicep)
• Ability to lead architectural initiatives for scalability, performance, reliability, and developer experience
• Understanding of CI/CD, observability, DevSecOps, and secrets management best practices
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills

Nice to have

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

Benefits

• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Short- & Long-Term Disability
• Life Insurance
• Flexible PTO
• RRSP with company match

About the company

Lantern is a specialty care platform that connects people with a Network of Excellence of specialists for surgery, cancer care, infusions, and more. It is trusted by large employers to deliver care to more than 6 million members.