Staff Software Engineer (Architecture)
Employerdirect Health Care · Dallas, TX - Hybrid (3x in office/week)
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**Staff Software Engineer (Architecture) — Lantern** **About Lantern** Lantern is a specialty care platform connecting people with the best care when they need it most. By curating a Network of Excellence of top specialists for surgery, cancer care, infusions, and more, Lantern delivers excellent care with significant cost savings to employers and their workforces. Members are supported by a dedicated care team (including Care Advocates and nurses) throughout their care journey. **Role Overview** Lantern is seeking a **Staff Software Engineer** to join our expanding **Architecture** team. This is a strategic, highly visible role focused on driving architectural consistency, elevating technical standards, and scaling our cloud-native healthcare platform. 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’ll provide hands-on technical leadership across the stack while guiding teams through complex architectural decisions and modernization initiatives. **Location** Hybrid — **at least 3 days/week in our Dallas, TX office** **Responsibilities** - Act as a senior architecture contributor and technical leader across key domains, collaborating with multiple pods to deliver cohesive, scalable solutions - Lead modularization and platform decoupling efforts to reduce tech debt and improve maintainability - Drive system design 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 (formally and informally) on architecture best practices and system-level thinking - Champion code quality, testability, and design standards through deep technical reviews and working 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, 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 **FHIR, HL7, and Kafka**) - Influence technical direction and execution of multi-team projects to ensure high standards for reliability, security, and performance **Requirements & Qualifications** - Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering (or related) **or equivalent practical experience** - **8+ years** professional software development experience, including **3+ years** in a senior/staff/principal-level role - Proven track record designing/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 with **DDD, microservices, and event-driven architectures** using **Apache Kafka** (or similar: RabbitMQ, AWS SNS/SQS), including familiarity with **saga patterns** - Hands-on experience architecting solutions on **Azure or AWS** (serverless functions, messaging queues, managed databases, infrastructure a
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