Software Engineer (x/f/m) - Product Platform
Alan
Location
Anywhere in France, Belgium, Spain
Employment Type
Full time
Department
Engineering
🌍 Who we are
Alan's vision is to make prevention the new norm of care for all. Our mission is to help people live in good health to 100 while helping employers feel proud, turning health benefits from a cost centre into their most valuable investment.
We're building a vertically integrated health partner that seamlessly unites insurance and smart healthcare delivery into one system.
By connecting all aspects of care - private, public, and direct to consumer - we create the most member-centric healthcare experience. Through deep engagement, we empower everyone to overcome day-to-day health obstacles and live healthier lives.
Today, we serve 950K+ members across France 🇫🇷, Spain 🇪🇸, Belgium 🇧🇪, and Canada 🇨🇦, partner with 35K+ companies, and have reached €680M+ ARR. Our team of 700+ Alaners is growing fast, with an ambition to reinvent healthcare at scale.
⭐ The Product Platform Area
🎯 Mission
We enable product crews to move faster by providing reliable, reusable, and simple internal services. We encapsulate complexity, expose clear interfaces, and build mature, long-term building blocks.
🔭 Scope
Our focus is on building reusable internal capabilities that power multiple product flows:
Core Services: APIs & systems like Payment, Messaging, Document Processing, Pricing Engine
Shared Platforms: Centralized services (e.g. AI Platform) with strong adoption across areas.
Operational Tooling: Dashboards and automation that support reliability, observability, and scalability.
Our role is to empower product teams, reducing their cognitive load.
⚡ Impact
Your work will be used daily by hundreds of product builders across Alan.
You’ll shape reusable building blocks that make it faster and safer to launch products across multiple countries.
By improving adoption of our services, you’ll directly improve product velocity, consistency, and member experience.
⚡ Why this role is special
High Leverage: Your work is multiplied across the entire company — adoption & reliability is our main KPIs.
Complex Problems: Multi-country services, abstraction design, and adoption challenges.
Platform Mindset: You’ll build services like a product, with product teams as your customers.
Ownership: You’ll influence product direction, mentor engineers, and shape Alan’s internal platform for years to come.
You’ll work closely with product crews across all Alan areas, as well as with our Architecture Group and Tech Foundation Area, making sure our systems scale globally and align with long-term technical strategy
🛠️ The Stack
Python/Flask, React, PostgreSQL in a monorepo. We deploy daily and believe in distributed ownership - you build it, you own it.
🔍 What we’re looking for
Experience we value
3+ years in backend, platform, or infrastructure-oriented engineering roles
Experience designing and maintaining internal services, APIs, or SDKs
You love turning complex problems into elegant solutions
You care about the "why" behind what you build, not just the "how"
Mindset we value
You think in terms of platform as a product: other engineers are your customers
You simplify complexity with clear abstractions and long-term ownership
You are collaborative, humble, and motivated by enabling others
You leverage AI to redefine our roles and unlock scalability
Healthcare technology excites you
You are fluent in English (no French required)
🌍 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
You're applying for a specific area, but you may ultimately join a different part of our engineering organisation, depending on where we believe you'll have the most impact.