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Who we are
You. Better. With Alan.
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.
We partner with 35K+ companies of all sizes, serving more than 950+ members, and have reached 680M+ in ARR.
Our team of 700+ people (still growing) operates across France , Spain , Belgium , and Canada .
How we do it ?
About
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, such as:
What drives us — We're obsessed with helping our members live healthier
Mission is the Boss: long-term thinking, seeking our mission success above all else.
Member & customer-led: obsessively focused on solving members & customers problems and creating the most delightful experiences.
How we build excellence — We hire the best people and give them platform to succeed
Champions of excellence: extremely high standards and talent density.
Distributed ownership: accountable enlightened despots, everyone owns their decisions and results.
Radically transparent: all information is accessible and written-first, so everyone can make the best decisions asynchronously
How we grow together — We help each other improve through honest feedback and bold thinking
Optimistic alchemy: optimists who collaborate with genuine care and support teammates.
Empathetic challengers: direct, caring feedback combined with praises to help each other grow professionally
Bold & creative contrarians: think differently to achieve greatness, try new approaches
How we move fast — We fight complexity and focus on what matters most
Disciplined in execution: taking decisive actions with focus that compounds success over time
Fight for simplicity: only high impact processes, smart frugality
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.
Our stack is Python/Flask, React, React Native, PostgreSQL.
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 Tech Foundations area
Mission: Tech Foundations enables Product Crews to experiment and ship product increments quickly, fostering product quality and reliability with security as a nonnegotiable attribute.
Scope:
Infrastructure enablement for product crews (e.g. hosting improvements, CI/CD, ...)
Security and compliance facilitation (e.g. authentication, database anonymization...)
Developer productivity enhancements (e.g. local environment setup, monorepo tooling, custom CLI and dashboards ...)
Design and development unification (e.g. Design System, ...)
Focus for 2025:
(You can learn about some of the things we did in 2024 in this blogpost)
In 2025, we will grow the team significantly to further increase our impact. We want to improve the quality of our foundations, from Infrastructure to code foundations (backend/frontend/mobile). We also have ambitions around our Security stack (authentication in particular) and enhanced tools and processes for developers.
A quick note about the process:
While you’re applying for a particular area, please note that you may ultimately join a different part of our engineering organization, depending on where we believe you will have the most impact.
Is it you we’re looking for?
We Are Looking For Platform Engineers With 3+ Years Of Experience To Help Us Maintain High Reliability While Scaling Our Infrastructure
You’ll be able to tackle high-impact & high-risk projects involving many engineers.
You'll design and implement robust infrastructure systems with a focus on reliability and observability.
You'll maintain our uptime targets while optimizing infrastructure costs.
You'll improve our incident management processes and lead post-mortems.
You'll build and maintain internal tooling (e.g. API, web interface, internal command line, ...) for other engineers.
You’ll have the opportunity to mentor other engineers & lead crews (more details in this article).
You’ll b
About the Company
Alan est le partenaire santé qui assure, prévient et accompagne au quotidien. Fondé en 2016 et premier nouvel acteur d'assurance santé agréé en France depuis 1986, Alan est rapidement devenu un partenaire santé incontournable. Offrant un service unique axé sur la prévention et le bien-être physique et mental, Alan utilise la technologie pour simplifier l’accès au soin. En plus de son offre d'assurance, Alan propose des services innovants comme des plans de prévention personnalisés, une clinique virtuelle accessible 7/7, un c...
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