Senior Software Engineer (Privacy) (x/f/m) - Tech Foundations

Alan; France; Hybride; EUR 90 000 - 140 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Alan is building the new standard in prevention insurance and is seeking a senior backend/platform engineer to own the GDPR Orchestrator and data lifecycle across the data foundations crew. You will design and operate privacy-aware systems, work with legal and security teams, and ship safe, scalable data rules with a focus on privacy by design.

You’ll contribute to the platform with Python and Typescript, participate in cross-country expansion, and help other product teams adopt the data

Qualifications

• Senior level experience (typically 8+ years) in backend or platform software engineering with production ownership.
• Built and operated platforms or services that other engineers depend on.
• Ability to coordinate with legal, security, data, and product teams and drive alignment to a plan.

Responsabilités

• Own and evolve data lifecycle and privacy tooling, including a GDPR orchestrator.
• Build reusable platform components and self-serve tooling for 15+ areas to manage data rules.
• Collaborate across legal, security, data, and product teams to surface dependencies and resolve design trade-offs.
• Write production-grade code and operate it end-to-end (deployments, monitoring, on-call).

Connaissances

Senior backend engineer

Platform engineering

API design

Data modeling

Security by design

Cross-team leadership

Outils

Python

Typescript

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Description du poste

Health can’t wait.

Not for symptoms to get worse. Not for a six-month appointment. Not for a system to catch up. But thats exactly how healthcare works today. You wait, until you can’t.

Alan exists to end the wait.

Health is a universal right, and we believe this right can only become real when it’s coupled with prevention. We need to stop treating health as something we repair and start treating it as something we build, every day. Its not solely a question of willpower. Its the healthcare system itself that needs to work for everyone, in a sustainable way.

So we are building the new standard in prevention insurance.

Alan is the first company that integrates insurance, prevention, and care into a single, acclaimed user experience.

We are on an incredible journey to build a global leading company, with a unique culture. We already partner with 40K+ companies of all sizes, serving more than 1M+ members, and have reached €800M+ in ARR.

Prevention as the new norm. Thats what were building with our team of 800+ people. If it speaks to you: weare hiring across France, Spain, Belgium, and Canada. And beyond.

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 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.

Want to know more? Read this article on our Engineering career path.

The Stack

Python/Flask, Typescript, React, React Native on the coding side. AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, Terraform/Terramate, Datadog, Cloudflare, GitHub Actions on the platform side, all in a monorepo. We deploy daily and believe in distributed ownership - you build it, you own it.

The Data Foundations crew - within 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.
• Data Foundations - is one of its crews. Its mission: be the enabling and platform team for data lifecycle and privacy engineering across Alan: retention, deletion, anonymization, and pseudonymization, by design. It builds and runs the GDPR Orchestrator (the platforms current embodiment) and equips each area to own its own data rules on top of it. The team also handles data shared with third parties and partners, with Legal and Security on requirements, including authority facing work (e.g. CNIL).

Scope

• 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 platforms capabilities as Alans data, products, and footprint expand.

Focus for 2026

• Own the platform: become the long term owner of the GDPR Orchestrator and shape the roadmap for how Alan manages data lifecycle at scale.
• Raise the bar on the platform: invest in its safety, observability, and developer experience so areas build on it with confidence.
• Lay the paved road: ship the docs, templates, and tooling that let areas self serve, then move ownership of data rules to the areas that produce the data.
• Scale the surface: grow the platforms reach across data stores and third party systems as Alan expands into new countries.

Is it you weare looking for?

Experience we value

• 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).
• Youve built and operated platforms, libraries, or services that other engineers depend on, and you care about the contract you expose to them.
• Its comfortable operating across many teams and influencing without authoritarianism: getting legal, security, data, and product crews who dont 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 dont get replaced by it.

Mindset we value

• You treat platform engineering as product work: engineers and members are your customers, and doing the right thing with their data should feel effortless.
• Its 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: its as comfortable writing a framing doc, drawing a dependency map, and aligning several areas on a design decision as you are writing the code.
• Its an enabler: you measure your impact by how fast areas run their own data rules without ever consulting you. The harder youve 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.
• Its fluent in English (French is not 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 youre excited about this opportunity but dont check every box, weld 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.

Wll 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.