Senior Software Engineer

Who you are

• 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
• 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)
• 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?

What the job involves

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Benefits

• Fair rewards: Generous equity packages complement your base salary, for permanent contracts only
• Flexible Office: Amazing office space at our HQ, sponsored co-working hubs or a full-remote experience with home office equipment sponsorship, we want you to live where you’re the happiest
• All the tools you need: Top-of-the-range equipment: Macbook Pro, keyboard, laptop stand, monitor, and Bose noise-cancelling headphones
• Flexible vacation policy and flexible working hours: Organise your time as you wish
• Delightful healthcare insurance: Extremely comprehensive health insurance - 100% of the contribution covered by Alan for you and your family, for permanent contracts only
• Transport: Country-specific commuter benefits
• Learning & Training opportunities: A highly flexible Training policy free books and a budget to attend and speak at conferences if the opportunity arises
• Parental leave: Extended parental leave for all new parents, for permanent contracts only