Description review

New Lantern | Software engineers (backend and

New Lantern · Remote · back to the listing

HR standards

40/100

poor

Title ↔ description

66/100

needs work

Reads as

Backend Engineer

96% confident

What this role officially is

software developer — ESCO, the EU occupation classification

Software developers implement or program all kinds of software systems based on specifications and designs by using programming languages, tools, and platforms.

Also known as: application developer, application programmer, solutions developer, programmer, software specialist, application software developer

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What the listing never says

  • No section describes what the person would actually do. Scope clarity
  • No pay range published. Candidates cannot tell whether applying is worth their time. Pay transparency

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generalist product engineers, founding recruiter)| Full time in San Francisco, CA (ONSITE)

New Lantern is building an AI radiology resident—think Cursor for radiologists. Our application integrates the three software tools radiologists use all day [1], together with AI, to create a platform that saves radiologists toil and lets them focus on reading images and finding disease.
We are a series A startup with ~20 engineers (~40 total staff), have a number of live customers generating revenue, plenty of runway, and are backed by Benchmark, Anthropic, and other great investors. Our customers have told us they would cry if they couldn't use our product anymore.
We're hiring for backend and product engineering, as well as a founding recruiter to help us scale. You'll work directly with our founder/CEO, our staff radiologists, and our end users to build a product that radiologists rely on daily. You'll have real ownership and autonomy, and ship meaningful work frequently.
I'm Steve, New Lantern's Head of Engineering. If you're interested or want to learn more, shoot me a note at (my HN username)@newlantern.ai. I've already hired one engineer from HN this year and interviewed many more!
[1] a radiology image archive & viewer, a medical report dictation system, and work management system

How this was produced

Highlights are found by rule, not by a model: each one is a phrase matched at a known position, and every note is a template we wrote. The two scores come from a typed-decision model (Jev) that reads the listing against the official role definition and real listings for the same role, and returns probabilities rather than prose — it never writes any of the words on this page, and never chooses what to highlight.

Deterministic penalty applied to the HR score: 12 points (from 52 before penalties). Reviewed 21 Sep 2026.