Fullstack Software Engineer (Security) - Tech Foundations at Alan

YOU. BETTER. WITH ALAN. Alan is building a vertically integrated health partner that unites insurance and smart healthcare delivery into one seamless system. Our vision is to make prevention the new norm of care for all. Our mission: 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. By connecting all aspects of care (private, public, and direct to consumer) we create the most member-centric healthcare experience, reducing claims costs while generating new monetization opportunities. We partner with tens of thousands of companies across France 🇫🇷, Spain 🇪🇸, Belgium 🇧🇪, and Canada 🇨🇦, serving over a million members. HOW WE WORK: OUR LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES - Mission is the Boss — We think long-term and are methodical optimists who take risks, seeking our mission's success above all else. - Distributed Ownership — Accountable enlightened despots: everyone owns their decisions and results. - Radical Transparency — All information is accessible and written-first, so everyone can make the best decisions asynchronously. - Always Growing — Direct, positive, and caring feedback, combined with self-growth ownership. ⭐ 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! We do security as we do everything else — that is, not quite the traditional way, but always in line with our leadership principles. Joining Alan as a Security Software Engineer team means you're at the forefront of protecting sensitive health data and ensuring our systems are resilient against threats. Want to know more? Read this article [Upgrade to PRO to see link] on our Engineering career path. 🤖 THE APPLICATION SECURITY 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. - Application Security is one of its crews. Its mission: build, evolve and operate the foundational security building blocks and secure-by-default patterns that make Alan’s products safe by design, highly available, and easy to ship, while partnering with product teams and Security Operations to reduce real risk without turning security into a bottleneck. 🔭 SCOPE 1. Security core components in the product 1. Authentication - design, build and operate the authentication stack on top of our self-hosted identity provider. Our goal is to go passwordless with great UX and unblock strategic initiatives relying on this stack. 2. Encryption - build, evolve and operate our end-to-end encryption component used by our Alan Clinic while keeping it delightful and frictionless for our members. 2. Security platforms 1. Secure file exchange - evolve and operate our secure file exchange platform to unblock product/ops teams while bringing support when relevant. 2. Secure enclave for medical secrecy - contribute to the foundations to isolate and protect highly sensitive medical data without sacrificing usability or delivery speed. 3. Contribute to reinforce our security engineering practices (fixing security vulnerabilities, CI/CD, SAST/DAST, Infrastructure Security, AI/LLM Security, etc…). 👀 FOCUS FOR 2026: In 2026, we will grow the team significantly to further increase our impact. We want to complete the modernization of our authentication flows and make it operable at high availability, unlock strategic initiatives by shipping new authentication/encryption flows. We are also evolving our AI-augmented development, by putting AI code assistants as a first-class citizen for everyone, including non-engineers. Ultimately we have massive ambitions around our Security stack and posture with enhanced tools and processes to protect our developers and users. EXPERIENCE WE VALUE - 3+ years in full-stack software engineering roles - Experience designing and building products, platforms, frameworks or libraries - You love turning complex problems into elegant secure solutions - You care about creating secure-by-design products while keeping delightful experiences MINDSET WE VALUE - You treat security engineering as product work: engineers & members are your customers, and security should feel effortless. - You’re an enabler: collaborative, humble, and motivated by helping teams ship safely. - You’re hands-on: you write maintainable code, ship to production, and care about reliability, rollouts, and real-world operability. - You build reusable patterns: guardrails, libraries, and secure-by-default abstractions that prevent vulnerabilities at scale. - You’re fluent in English (French is a bonus). For this opportunity, we are aiming to hire within the C1 - F 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 [Upgrade to PRO to see link] and Career [Upgrade to PRO to see link] pages, as well as our Medium [Upgrade to PRO to see link] blog [Upgrade to PRO to see link] and Glassdoor page [Upgrade to PRO to see link] for more info. YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT ALAN? - 🙌 Perks & Benefits [Upgrade to PRO to see link] 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 [Upgrade to PRO to see link] 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 [Upgrade to PRO to see link]