Staff Software Engineer Machine Learning

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 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.

You will provide hands-on technical leadership across the stack while guiding engineering teams through complex architectural decisions, platform evolution, and modernization initiatives.

Location: Hybrid - at least 3 days/wk in our Vancouver, BC Canada office

Act as a senior contributor and technical leader across key domains, collaborating within and across multiple pods to deliver cohesive and scalable solutions

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

Contribute to and evolve Lantern’s internal technical excellence 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

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)
• 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., Demonstrated ability to lead architectural initiatives that drive improvements in scalability, performance, reliability, and developer experience
• able to clearly explain complex technical topics to both technical and non-technical audiences

Experience with AI/ML services or architectural contributions to innovation-driven initiatives

Familiarity with cross-cloud or hybrid-cloud architectural design patterns

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

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Short- & Long-Term Disability

Life Insurance

Flexible PTO

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. You care deeply for your customers are driven to keep HUMANITY in all decisions. Your customers aren’t just the individuals using your product. 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. 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.