Security Software Engineer - Tech Foundations

🐼 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 1M users , and have reached 770M+ in ARR.

Our team of 700+ people (still growing) operates across France 🇫🇷, Spain 🇪🇸, Belgium 🇧🇪, and Canada 🇨🇦.

🤘 How we do it ?

People joining Alan are always 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 members live healthier

• Mission is the Boss: long-term thinking, mission above all else

• Member & customer-led: obsessed with solving problems and delighting users

🏆 How we build excellence - We hire the best and empower them to succeed

• Champions of excellence: extremely high standards and talent density

• Distributed ownership: everyone owns their decisions and results

• Radically transparent: all information accessible, written-first, async decisions

🤝 How we grow together - We improve through honest feedback and bold thinking

• Optimistic alchemy: optimists who collaborate with genuine care

• Empathetic challengers: direct, caring feedback to help each other grow

• Bold contrarians: think differently, try new approaches

⚡ How we move fast — We fight complexity and focus on what matters

• Disciplined execution: decisive action with compounding focus

• Fight for simplicity: 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!

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 on our Engineering career path.

🤖 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.

🔭 Scope:

• Infrastructure enablement for product crews (e.g. hosting improvements, CI/CD, scalability, multi-cloud architecture)

• Security and compliance facilitation (e.g. authentication, encryption, threat protection)

• Developer productivity enhancements (e.g. local environment setup, monorepo tooling, observability, tech stack evolution)

• Design and development unification (e.g. design system, accessibility)

• AI-assisted engineering enablement (e.g. agentic development, code assistants, MCP servers)

👀 Focus for 2026:

In 2026, we will grow the team significantly to further increase our impact. We want to expand our cloud footprint with a revisited multi-cloud strategy as we expand internationally, while we’re elevating the quality bar, from infrastructure to code foundations (backend/frontend/mobile). 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.

⭐️ Is it you we’re looking for? ⭐️

We are looking for experienced Security Engineers to help us strengthen our security posture across our engineering organization:

• Strong background in application and infrastructure security. Application Security Testing and Penetration Testing are not just buzzwords for you, you have hands-on experience using these techniques to identify and mitigate security vulnerabilities in web and mobile applications.

• Experience in protecting organisations from cyber threats and have experience working with platforms to monitor, detect, and respond to security incidents.

• Passionate about building secure products and systems.

• Familiarity with cloud security and modern web application security

You would be a good fit at Alan if most of this sounds like you:

• Well-versed in Object Oriented Programming such as Python, Java, C#, and enthusiastic about web technologies such as modern Javascript.

• Willing to work in Python/JavaScript (but you don’t need to have experience with those 2 languages!).

• Passionate about building products.

• Self-starting and entrepreneurial.

• Humble and still willing to grow (no matter your seniority!).

• Collaborative, enthusiastic about teamwork, learning, and teaching.

• Fluent in English (no need to speak French!).

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.

🙌 Perks & Benefits

At Alan, we believe that being in good health is a basic need, and it starts with our employees. This is why Alaners are provided with a stimulating environment and perks ensuring they are happy, efficient and spend only high-quality time with co-workers.

Therefore, we offer:

• 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-canceling headphones.

• Flexible vacation policy and flexible working hours. Organize your time as you wish.

• Delightful healthcare insurance: Extremely comprehensive health insurance - 100% for you and your children, 90-100% for partners depending on your country (permanent contracts only).

• Transport. Country-specific commuter benefits.

• Learning & Training opportunities. A highly flexible Training policy free books and budget to attend and speak at conferences if the opportunity arises.

• Personal growth through coaching: At Alan, coaching isn't just a perk - it's core to who we are. Every Alaner is paired with a dedicated coach from day one, who helps maximize their impact, nurture engagement, and navigate Alan's values to develop their full potential. Learn more about our coaching culture.

• Parental leave. Extended parental leave for all new parents, for permanent contracts only.

🔄 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.