Careers at Lantern
Build the Future
of Distribution
Billions of dollars sit tied up in stock, yet most distributors still buy on gut feel and spreadsheets. We're a tight-knit team in San Francisco building the AI-powered platform to change that. Let's build the future of distribution together.
- San Francisco · In-office
- Founding-era team
- Competitive comp + equity
Why it matters
For distributors,
inventory is the business.
Buy too little and you have stockouts and missed sales. Buy too much and cash sits dead on the shelf. Getting that right across thousands of SKUs every day is the problem we solve.
An $8 trillion industry with more than 250,000 distributors, and almost none of them run on modern software.
We bring distributors the cutting-edge technology that, until now, only Amazon and Walmart could afford.
10% higher sales. 30% leaner inventory. Thousands of hours saved from manual work. Millions of dollars straight to the bottom line.
Life at Lantern
What it's like to work here
Ownership
Small team, real scope. You own systems end to end and see your work drive customer P&L on every account.
Customer obsession
We sit with distributors, learn their operations, and ship software they trust with real purchasing decisions.
Craft
We build real systems with pragmatic execution, clean code, and pride in a job well done.
Momentum
Work shoulder to shoulder with the founding team, ship fast, and get real products in front of customers in your first few weeks.
Join us
Open roles
2 open positions · Engineering · San Francisco
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Software Engineer
Build the platform that distributors trust to run their purchasing. Full-stack role, from backend services to interfaces that customers use every day.
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Machine Learning Engineer
Scale the core ML platform behind our product, owning pipelines that ingest data, train models, and generate recommendations that every customer relies on.
Don't see the right role? Introduce yourself and pick "Other / General interest." We read every application.