Director of Engineering

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 trusted by the nation's largest employers to deliver care to more than 6 million members across the country. Learn more about us at lanterncare.com.

Lantern Care is looking for a Director of Engineering to lead our Product Engineering organization. This role owns feature delivery across multiple engineering pods, partnering closely with Product and business stakeholders to translate roadmap priorities into shipped, high–quality software. You will report to the VP of Engineering and play a central role in maturing how our engineering teams plan, build, and iterate. This is a hands‑on leadership role for someone who has run engineering teams before and wants to build the next chapter of Lantern’s delivery model – standing up new pods, championing iterative, loop–based development practices, and raising the bar on execution across the organization.
Location: Hybrid - at least 3 days/week in our Dallas, TX offices
Responsibilities:

• Manage the delivery for multiple product engineering pods, ensuring predictable, high-quality releases against roadmap commitments
• Stand up and scale new engineering pods structured around iterative, agentic, loop-based development, defining team composition, cadence, and ways of working
• Partner with Product Management and business stakeholders to translate business requirements into executable work with clear context and constraints
• Maintain hands‑on technical expertise in design, code, and deployments
• Coach and develop engineering managers and senior engineers, building a strong bench of technical leadership
• Drive engineering rigor and architecture standards via platform tools across the pods, including code quality, testing discipline, and architecture alignment, in partnership with QA and Architecture
• Drive scaled hiring, performance management, and career growth for the Product Engineering team
• Report on delivery health, velocity, risks, and escalations to senior leadership
• Champion adoption and experimental scale of Lantern’s AI-assisted SDLC tooling and practices within your pods

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years leading engineering managers or senior technical leads
• Track record of standing up or restructuring engineering teams around new delivery models, such as pod-based or iterative, loop-based development
• Deep experience partnering with Product and QA to ship complex, customer‑facing software at scale
• Strong technical judgment across modern architecture, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD practices
• Experience operating in a regulated or healthcare‑adjacent environment is a plus
• 7+ years of experience in software development, with a strong proficiency in .NET Core, C#, Typescript, and/or Python
• Proven experience leading software development teams specializing in web applications and integrations.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Cloud‑based development (Azure preferred)

Strong Candidates Will:

• Move fast without sacrificing quality, balancing urgency with sound engineering judgment
• Communicate clearly and directly with both engineers and executive stakeholders
• Have built or scaled pod‑based engineering structures from the ground up with direct connection to the business for rapid, iterative development
• Coach engineering managers, not just individual contributors
• Bring a builder’s mindset to process, comfortable defining how a new team should work rather than just executing an existing playbook
• Medical Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Short & Long Term Disability
• Life Insurance
• 401k with company match
• Flexible Time Off

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.
• You have the GRIT , 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 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.

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.