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# Senior Agentic Software Engineer at Lantern

- **Company:** Lantern
- **Location:** Dallas TX Denver CO Edmonton, Canada
- **Compensation:** $110k–$170k
- **Posted:** 2026-07-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/lanternstudiosinc/jobs/5300800008

## Job description

At Lantern, our company culture stands as the bedrock of our success and a source of pride for our teams. We firmly believe that a culture founded on trust forms the basis for enduring relationships with clients, colleagues, and partners.

Within this culture, we nurture an environment of respect, inclusion, and belonging, fostering collaboration among inspired teams. We prioritize the well-being of our colleagues, the success of our clients, and our positive impact on society.

Embracing a growth mindset where curiosity thrives, we celebrate excellence and value individuals who inspire and mentor others, elevating the collective. Our driving force lies in personal and business growth. We go above and beyond to surprise and delight our clients, delivering tangible business value. In facing challenges, we make tough choices and solve complex problems to positively influence our clients, their customers, and the world at large.

As a Microsoft services partner, we hold ourselves to the highest standards of technical excellence. This commitment to quality is evident not only in our work but also in how we support and empower our employees. At Lantern, our culture mirrors our core values and unwavering dedication to realizing our purpose and vision, making it a dynamic and fulfilling workplace. Together, we transcend the ordinary and achieve extraordinary results.

## About the Role

As a Senior Software Modernization Engineer, you'll work directly with enterprise software engineering organizations to help modernize applications, improve developer productivity, accelerate platform transformations, and enable modern software delivery practices.

This is a highly hands-on engineering and consulting role focused on delivering measurable outcomes. You'll partner with architects, platform teams, engineering leaders, and software developers to solve difficult technical challenges and execute modernization initiatives across large enterprise environments.

Successful candidates will possess deep Java expertise, strong problem-solving skills, and the ability to work directly with client stakeholders to guide modernization efforts from assessment through implementation.

## What You Will Do

- Lead large-scale Java application modernization initiatives
- Execute Java version upgrades, framework modernization, dependency remediation, and runtime migrations
- Utilize automation technologies and modernization accelerators to transform enterprise applications at scale
- Analyze and troubleshoot complex enterprise applications, build systems, and development environments
- Improve software delivery performance through modern engineering practices and automation
- Develop reusable engineering tools, accelerators, and modernization assets
- Support adoption of modern DevOps and CI/CD practices
- Leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity and modernization velocity
- Partner with architects, platform teams, and engineering leadership to develop modernization strategies
- Facilitate technical discovery sessions, modernization assessments, and engineering workshops
- Mentor team members and contribute to Lantern's technical excellence

What Success Looks Like

- Deliver measurable modernization outcomes for enterprise clients
- Successfully execute large-scale Java transformation initiatives
- Build credibility with engineering leaders, architects, and software developers
- Improve developer productivity through modernization and automation
- Solve complex technical challenges independently
- Develop reusable accelerators that increase delivery efficiency
- Contribute to successful client outcomes through strong technical leadership
- Continuously learn and adapt to evolving engineering tools and technologies

Required Qualifications

- 5+ years of software engineering, technical consulting, platform engineering, or related experience
- Strong Java and JVM ecosystem expertise
- Deep experience with Maven, Gradle, dependency management, enterprise application troubleshooting, and build/release processes
- Experience working with large, complex codebases
- Experience with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms
- Familiarity with Artifactory, Nexus, or similar artifact repositories
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or similar solutions
- Strong communication and customer-facing skills
- Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and business stakeholders

## Preferred Qualifications

- OpenRewriteexperience
- Large-scale application modernization programs
- Java version migrations (Java 8 to Java 17+)
- Application security remediation initiatives
- SonarQube, Checkmarx, or similar code quality platforms
- Microsoft Azure
- C#/.NET, Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript
- Experience with large-scale automated code transformation tools

Lantern is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Actual compensation will depend upon an individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.

Colorado Salary Range $120,000—$170,000 USD

Lantern is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Actual compensation will depend upon an individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.

Ontario Salary Range $110,000—$150,000 USD

## About Lantern

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Lantern is a specialized data and AI consulting firm that helps organizations AI-enable their business on the Microsoft platform.
- **Entity Type**: Private
- **Headquarters**: Dallas, Texas, USA (with offices in Denver, CO; New York, NY; Edmonton, Alberta; Calgary, Alberta; and Toronto, Ontario)
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: IT Consulting & Services (Microsoft Partner)
- **Target customers**: Enterprise organizations across industries (B2B), including healthcare, manufacturing, and financial services, seeking to adopt AI on the Microsoft platform
- **Mission/Purpose**: "We exist to unlock digital leadership from the Microsoft platform, creating growth and opportunity for our clients, employees and partners."

## Products & Services
Lantern offers professional services across six core practice areas:

- **AI Strategy**: Defining a clear AI strategy that aligns leadership, operating models, and technology to turn ambition into measurable business value.
- **Azure AI Apps**: Designing, modernizing, and scaling intelligent applications using Azure AI, engineered for security, reliability, and production use.
- **Data & AI**: Reshaping data estates into intelligent foundations for real-time insights and AI-driven decisions.
- **AI Foundations**: Building the secure, governed, and scalable foundation required to adopt and run AI responsibly across the enterprise.
- **Copilot & Business Apps**: Turning Copilot and low-code investments into everyday productivity by embedding AI into workflows, apps, and how work gets done.
- **GitHub**: Transforming development organizations with AI-native GitHub practices that accelerate productivity, embed security by default, and operationalize agentic workflows at scale.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (Private company)
- **Key Metric**: Over 20 years of proven delivery experience; repeat customers (exact number not specified on site)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Microsoft (Microsoft Solutions Partner designation across multiple competencies)
- **Growth Signals**: Active hiring across multiple North American offices (Dallas, Denver, New York, Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto); dedicated practice leads for Azure AI Apps, GitHub, and Data & AI; published case studies with major clients like Unifi (safety analytics) and a leading academic life sciences university (healthcare AI)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep Microsoft specialization**: Lantern is a highly focused Microsoft-only partner, not a generalist consultancy, giving it deep expertise across the full Microsoft AI stack (Azure, GitHub, Copilot, Power Platform).
- **End-to-end AI journey**: Covers everything from strategy and governance to application development and data foundation, enabling clients to move from readiness to production.
- **Proven outcomes**: Case studies demonstrate real-world, measurable results (e.g., AI-powered safety platform for Unifi, generative AI for clinical outcomes at a life sciences university).
- **Longevity and trust**: Over 20 years of delivery experience with a high rate of repeat customers, indicating strong client relationships.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-First**: The company is purpose-built for the "Era of AI," with all practices oriented around enabling AI on the Microsoft platform.
- **Scalable Growth**: Expanding geographically (hiring in multiple US and Canadian cities) and building out practice leads to scale service delivery.
- **Agentic Workflows**: Explicitly investing in operationalizing agentic workflows at scale via GitHub and Azure AI.

## Why Work Here
- **Career Development**: The company prioritizes career advancement and ongoing education, with a strong foundation for growth and staying ahead of industry trends [lanternstudios.com](https://lanternstudios.com/careers/).
- **Comprehensive Benefits**: Includes medical, dental, and vision coverage; generous sick leave and extended leave policies; short- and long-term disability support [lanternstudios.com](https://lanternstudios.com/careers/).
- **Generous PTO**: A generous paid time off policy to support work-life balance [lanternstudios.com](https://lanternstudios.com/careers/).
- **Long-Term Savings**: 401K and RRSP plans to help build financial security [lanternstudios.com](https://lanternstudios.com/careers/).
- **Culture**: Emphasizes a culture of trust, collaboration, and continuous growth. Values include "Growth is our Mindset," "Own Our Outcome," and "Trust is Our Foundation" [lanternstudios.com](https://lanternstudios.com/who-we-are/).
- **Work Model**: Not explicitly stated as fully remote; roles are listed with specific city locations (Dallas, Denver, New York, Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto), suggesting a hybrid or office-based model depending on the role [job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/lanternstudiosinc/jobs/5099066008).
- **Impact**: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI projects for major clients, from safety analytics to healthcare AI, with a focus on production-ready solutions rather than just prototypes.

## Sources
1. [Lantern Website - Home](https://lanternstudios.com/)
2. [Lantern Website - Careers](https://lanternstudios.com/careers/)
3. [Lantern Website - Who We Are](https://lanternstudios.com/who-we-are/)
4. [Lantern Website - What We Do](https://lanternstudios.com/what-we-do/)
5. [Greenhouse Job Board - Lantern](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/lanternstudiosinc/jobs/5099066008)

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