Software Engineer (Security) - Tech Foundations

Alan

HEALTH CAN’T WAIT. Not for symptoms to get worse. Not for a six‑month appointment. Not for a system to catch up. But that’s exactly how healthcare works today. You wait, until you can’t. Alan exists to end the wait. Health is a universal right, and we believe this right can only become real when it’s coupled with prevention. We need to stop treating health as something we repair and start treating it as something we build, every day. It’s not solely a question of willpower. It’s the healthcare system itself that needs to work for everyone, in a sustainable way. So we are building the new standard in prevention insurance. Alan is the first company that integrates insurance, prevention, and care into a single, acclaimed user experience. We are on an incredible journey to build a global leading company, with a unique culture. We already partner with 40K+ companies of all sizes, serving more than 1M+ members, and have reached €800M+ in ARR. Prevention as the new norm. That's what we're building with our team of 800+ people. If it speaks to you: we're hiring across France, Spain, Belgium, and Canada. And beyond. ⭐ THE ENGINEERING TEAM ⭐ In our engineering team, we build the infrastructure, interfaces, and applications to provide first-class service to our members, health professionals, and even ourselves! Being an engineer at Alan means joining a team of talented, committed and passionate engineers, with a lot of product interaction. We move fast, with a lot of ownership, and are proud to tackle big problems! Our process is very simple: those who make product decisions are the same ones who build them. Want to know more? Read this article if you want to discover how life as an Engineer at Alan and this article on our Engineering career path. 🛠️ THE STACK Python/Flask, React, React Native, PostgreSQL in a monorepo. We deploy daily and believe in distributed ownership - you build it, you own it. 🤖 THE EVERYONE CAN BUILD CREW — WITHIN TECH FOUNDATIONS AREA 🎯 Mission: * Tech Foundations enables product crews and creates the environment to thrive—combining world-class infrastructure, intuitive developer experience, exquisite operational excellence, and built-in security to make shipping exceptional products effortless. * Everyone Can Build is one of its crews. Its mission: propel Alan into the AI-native engineering era, by building the tools, agents, and infrastructure that let both engineers and non-engineers contribute confidently and sustainably at scale. 🔭 Scope: 1. Hopper — Alan's own background coding agent: agent orchestration, parallel agent pools, web dashboard for builders 2. AI-native engineering enablement — Harness integration, agentic workflows, ... 3. Autonomous testing infrastructure — agents that validate their own work before shipping 4. Sandboxed development environments — removing brittle local setups so everyone can contribute safely 5. CI/CD and quality guardrails — auto-fix, complexity scoring, automated checks and new PR review experiences that enable confident reviewing 6. Non-engineer contribution tooling — flows and interfaces that make Designers, PMs and Ops autonomous contributors 👀 Focus for 2026: In 2026, we're moving from "AI tools you monitor" to "AI agents you trust." That means scaling Hopper — Alan's own background coding agent — alongside the infrastructure that makes it reliable: managed agent pools, sandboxed environments, autonomous testing, and CI auto-fix. Engineers will routinely offload tasks to agents. Non-engineers will open pull requests after having easily tested their changes. Agents will validate their own work before it ships. ⭐ IS IT YOU WE’RE LOOKING FOR? EXPERIENCE WE VALUE * 3+ years in full-stack software engineering roles * Experience building internal platforms, frameworks, CLIs, or libraries that improve developer workflows * Experience with LLM APIs, agent orchestration frameworks, or AI-assisted coding tools is a strong plus * You care about creating delightful experiences, whether building UIs or APIs MINDSET WE VALUE * You think in terms of platform experience: engineers are your primary customers, and you care about making AI-native workflows reliable for everyone * You are collaborative, humble, and motivated by enabling others * You simplify complexity with elegant abstractions and maintainable code * You're excited about AI changing who gets to build — and want to be the one building that infrastructure * You are fluent in English (no French required) * But above all, we are looking for high potential and curiosity: make sure to show us this when you apply! Everything else is a bonus. 🌍 HOW WE WORK * Location: You must be legally eligible to work in France, Belgium, or Spain. * Remote work: We offer remote work flexibility, but we value in-person collaboration 🎯 IMPORTANT NOTE: WE HIRE PEOPLE, NOT ROLES. If you're excited about this opportunity but don't check every box, we'd love to hear from you. Everyone, no matter how underrepresented, should feel free to apply, as it can only bring learnings or success. If you identify yourself as a woman: Did you know that research shows women often apply only when meeting 100% of requirements? Remember, this is just a guide, not a checklist. We'll be thrilled to receive your application! 🔖 Check out our About Alan and Career pages, as well as our Medium, blog and Glassdoor page for more info. YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT ALAN? * 🙌 Perks & Benefits: Alaners are provided with a stimulating environment and perks ensuring they are happy, efficient and spend only high-quality time with co-workers. * 🤘 A strong culture: People joining Alan are often surprised and delighted by our innovative working method. We have a set of cultural values that guide our approach to work 🔄 A quick note about the process Note: While you're applying for a specific area, you may join a different engineering team based on where we think you'll have the most impact. Check out descriptions of other areas here.

Alan

HEALTH CAN’T WAIT. Not for symptoms to get worse. Not for a six‑month appointment. Not for a system to catch up. But that’s exactly how healthcare works today. You wait, until you can’t. Alan exists to end the wait. Health is a universal right, and we believe this right can only become real when it’s coupled with prevention. We need to stop treating health as something we repair and start treating it as something we build, every day. It’s not solely a question of willpower. It’s the healthcare system itself that needs to work for everyone, in a sustainable way. So we are building the new standard in prevention insurance. Alan is the first company that integrates insurance, prevention, and care into a single, acclaimed user experience. We are on an incredible journey to build a global leading company, with a unique culture. We already partner with 40K+ companies of all sizes, serving more than 1M+ members, and have reached €800M+ in ARR. Prevention as the new norm. That's what we're building with our team of 800+ people. If it speaks to you: we're hiring across France, Spain, Belgium, and Canada. And beyond. ⭐ THE ENGINEERING TEAM ⭐ In our engineering team, we build the infrastructure, interfaces, and applications to provide first-class service to our members, health professionals, and even ourselves! Being an engineer at Alan means joining a team of talented, committed and passionate engineers, with a lot of interactions. We move fast, with a lot of ownership, and are proud to tackle big problems! Our process is very simple: those who make product decisions are the same ones who build them. We are also the stewards of our members' most sensitive data, and building privacy in by design is core engineering work for us, not an afterthought. Want to know more? Read this article on our Engineering career path. 🛠️ THE STACK Python/Flask, Typescript, React, React Native on the coding side. AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, Terraform/Terramate, Datadog, Cloudflare, GitHub Actions on the platform side, all in a monorepo. We deploy daily and believe in distributed ownership - you build it, you own it. 🤖 THE DATA FOUNDATIONS CREW - WITHIN THE TECH FOUNDATIONS AREA 🎯 MISSION * Tech Foundations - enables product crews and creates the environment to thrive, combining world-class infrastructure, intuitive developer experience, exquisite operational excellence, and built-in security to make shipping exceptional products effortless. * Data Foundations - is one of its crews. Its mission: be the enabling and platform team for data lifecycle and privacy engineering across Alan: retention, deletion, anonymization, and pseudonymization, by design. It builds and runs the GDPR Orchestrator (the platform's current embodiment) and equips each area to own its own data rules on top of it. The team also handles data shared with third parties and partners, with Legal and Security on requirements, including authority-facing work (e.g. CNIL). 🔭 SCOPE 1. Own and evolve the privacy platform (build & run): its core engine, its safety mechanisms (preview/dry-run, audit trail), and its operational health (deploys, on-call, observability). You design the contract areas build on and keep it reliable as adoption grows. 2. Build the paved road (enable, teach to fish): docs, templates, and self-serve tooling so any of our 15+ areas can plug into the platform and manage its own data rules and dependencies. You coach areas through pairing and syncs; you build the capability rather than doing the work for them. 3. Coordinate across areas (the cross-area bridge): align legal, security, data, and the data-producing areas on requirements, surface cross-area data dependencies, and resolve design trade-offs between them. You own the coordination; each area stays accountable for its own data and rules. 4. Push the foundations forward: drive open platform design questions to a conclusion and grow the platform's capabilities as Alan's data, products, and footprint expand. 👀 FOCUS FOR 2026 * Own the platform: become the long-term owner of the GDPR Orchestrator and shape the roadmap for how Alan manages data lifecycle at scale. * Raise the bar on the platform: invest in its safety, observability, and developer experience so areas build on it with confidence. * Lay the paved road: ship the docs, templates, and tooling that let areas self-serve, then move ownership of data rules to the areas that produce the data. * Scale the surface: grow the platform's reach across data stores and third-party systems as Alan expands into new countries. ⭐ IS IT YOU WE'RE LOOKING FOR? EXPERIENCE WE VALUE * Senior-level experience (typically 8+ years) in backend or platform software engineering, or equivalent, with deep production ownership (API and contract design, data modeling, running what you ship). * You've built and operated platforms, libraries, or services that other engineers depend on, and you care about the contract you expose to them. * You're comfortable operating across many teams and influencing without authoritarianism: getting legal, security, data, and product crews who don't report to you aligned on a plan, and driving it to completion. * You bring pragmatism under constraint: you ship sound, safe solutions and improve them over time, rather than waiting for perfect. * Strong plus: prior privacy, GDPR, or data-governance exposure, and experience working in an enabling or platform-team operating model. * Explicitly not required: deep legal expertise. Legal and security partner with this role; they don't get replaced by it. MINDSET WE VALUE * You treat platform engineering as product work: engineers and members are your customers, and doing the right thing with their data should feel effortless. * You're hands-on: writing code is the bulk of the job (Python, TypeScript). You ship what you write to production yourself, then operate it: rollouts, alerting, on-call, incident response. * You design and communicate: you're as comfortable writing a framing doc, drawing a dependency map, and aligning several areas on a design decision as you are writing the code. * You're an enabler: you measure your impact by how fast areas run their own data rules without ever consulting you. The harder you've worked, the less they have to engage you. * You build reusable patterns: guardrails, libraries, and safe-by-default abstractions that keep data handling correct and safe by design at scale. * You're fluent in English (French is not required). For this opportunity, we are aiming to hire above the E level range. But above all, we are looking for high potential and curiosity: make sure to show us this when you apply! Everything else is a bonus. 🌍 HOW WE WORK * Location: You must be legally eligible to work in France, Belgium, or Spain. * Remote work: We offer remote work flexibility, but we value in-person collaboration. 🎯 IMPORTANT NOTE: WE HIRE PEOPLE, NOT ROLES. If you're excited about this opportunity but don't check every box, we'd love to hear from you. Everyone, no matter how underrepresented, should feel free to apply, as it can only bring learnings or success. If you identify yourself as a woman: Did you know that research shows women often apply only when meeting 100% of requirements? Remember, this is just a guide, not a checklist. We'll be thrilled to receive your application! 🔖 Check out our About Alan and Career pages, as well as our Medium, blog and Glassdoor page for more info. YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT ALAN? * 🙌 Perks & Benefits: Alaners are provided with a stimulating environment and perks ensuring they are happy, efficient and spend only high-quality time with co-workers. * 🤘 A strong culture: People joining Alan are often surprised and delighted by our innovative working method. We have a set of cultural values that guide our approach to work.

Alan

HEALTH CAN’T WAIT. Not for symptoms to get worse. Not for a six‑month appointment. Not for a system to catch up. But that’s exactly how healthcare works today. You wait, until you can’t. Alan exists to end the wait. Health is a universal right, and we believe this right can only become real when it’s coupled with prevention. We need to stop treating health as something we repair and start treating it as something we build, every day. It’s not solely a question of willpower. It’s the healthcare system itself that needs to work for everyone, in a sustainable way. So we are building the new standard in prevention insurance. Alan is the first company that integrates insurance, prevention, and care into a single, acclaimed user experience. We are on an incredible journey to build a global leading company, with a unique culture. We already partner with 40K+ companies of all sizes, serving more than 1M+ members, and have reached €800M+ in ARR. Prevention as the new norm. That's what we're building with our team of 800+ people. If it speaks to you: we're hiring across France, Spain, Belgium, and Canada. And beyond. ⭐ BUILD THE AI-NATIVE COMPANY, FOR REAL Alan has spent 10 years developing a distinctive way of working: radical transparency, written culture, distributed decision-making, no managers, no meetings by default. This wasn't just philosophy. It was a deliberate architectural choice, and it made Alan one of the most productive companies in European tech. Now, agentic AI empowers us to make it much more personalized. The principles that made Alan productive become the foundation for a much more ambitious journey: a company where AI agents handle organizational complexity, surface the right context instantly, and let every person focus on the work that matters. As a Software Engineer on this team, you will: * Build the AI-powered internal platform that every Alaner uses daily to navigate the company, find context, and take action. * Design and ship intelligent agents that automate real organizational workflows: onboarding, knowledge retrieval, performance alignment, decision support. * Push LLMs into production for structured reasoning, agentic task execution, and deep integration with internal tools. * Define the primitives and abstractions of AI-native work, the patterns that scale across every team and every country Alan operates in. * Replace generic tools (HRIS, performance reviews, IAM) with opinionated, Alan-native software that compounds with our culture. * Build and scale our Identity & Access Management (IAM), Privileged Access Management (PAM), and user lifecycle across 25+ systems. * Collaborate with product, design, security and leadership to turn Alan's cultural principles into software that amplifies them. WHY THIS ROLE IS SPECIAL * Alan's written, transparent, async culture generates an extraordinary volume of structured organizational knowledge. Most companies can't feed AI agents with high-quality internal data. Alan already can. * The team is building a full AI-native operational layer from scratch, not adding copilots to legacy tools. * Every Alaner uses what you ship, every day. The feedback loop between building and impact is immediate. * The work sits at the frontier of applied AI: agents, retrieval-augmented generation, structured outputs, tool use, human-in-the-loop design. * The ambition goes beyond Alan. The patterns you build here could define how high-performance companies operate in the AI era. 🛠 YOUR PLAYGROUND * Stack: Python/Flask, React, PostgreSQL, plus deep integration with LLM APIs and internal AI infrastructure. * What you'll do: design and ship AI-native tools that power how Alan works. automated workflows, organizational navigation, agentic assistants. * Impact: your work shapes the daily experience of every Alaner and builds the playbook for the AI-native company. 👥 WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR * Software engineers of all experience levels, ideally with backend or full-stack experience. * Genuinely excited about AI and eager to explore what LLMs, agents, and retrieval systems can do inside a real product. * Comfortable building in fast-moving territory where the right abstractions don't exist yet. * Well-versed in OOP languages (Python, Java, C#) and modern web technologies. * Fluent in English (French is a plus but not required). * Curious, self-starting, humble, collaborative, and eager to grow. 🙌 PERKS & BENEFITS * Fair rewards & equity packages. * Flexible office & remote options. * Top-tier equipment: MacBook Pro, monitor, noise-canceling headphones. * Flexible vacation & hours. * Comprehensive healthcare for you, children, and partners. * Transport support and coaching for personal growth. * Training budget for conferences, courses, books. * Extended parental leave for all parents. 🔄 RECRUITMENT NOTE 🌟 We hire people, not roles. Don't worry if you don't check every box. High potential and curiosity matter most. We may even suggest another team if we see a better fit. 🔖 Learn more About Alan and on our Career pages, Medium, blog and Glassdoor page.