Senior Software Engineer (x/f/m) - Insurance Offer

🐼 Who we are

At Alan we are on an important mission to empower everyone to live a longer, healthier life. Our goal is to extend the quality years of life expectancy for everyone.

We are empowering our members to live a longer and healthier life with a ‘one-stop health partner’ model seamlessly integrating insurance, prevention, affordable care access and well-being services. We are redefining healthcare by being both a health insurer and a provider, creating the most member-centric experience in a vast market. We go above and beyond for our members and companies to overcome the day-to-day health obstacles and our product is built to address the biggest pain points they face. With Alan, you’re never alone.

We partner with 30,000+ companies, with 700K+ members, and cumulate €500M+ and growing ARR.

The team is 600+ people, and we operate in France 🇫🇷, Spain 🇪🇸, Belgium 🇧🇪, and Canada 🇨🇦.

🤘 How we do it ?

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:

1. Mission is the Boss: We have a mission-first focus with long-term thinking, where all employees act as owners seeking the company's success above all else.

2. Member & Customer-led: We are obsessively focused on solving customer problems and creating delightful experiences while building trust.

3. Excellence like Athletes: We maintain high standards and talent density, using the Keeper Test to ensure exceptional performance.

4. Enlightened Despots: We combine distributed ownership with accountability, empowering decision-makers while maintaining responsibility.

5. Radically Transparent: We make information accessible and written-first, promoting async communication while protecting sensitive data.

6. Kind, Methodic Optimists: We collaborate genuinely without ego, support teammates, and maintain positive intent while assuming the best.

7. Empathetic Challengers: We give direct feedback with empathy, praise strengths, and focus on growth through candid communication.

8. Bold & Creative Contrarians: We think differently to achieve greatness, challenge expertise with first principles, and embrace calculated risks.

9. Disciplined Executors: We focus on making good decisions quickly, maintain accountability, and break down problems into manageable pieces.

10. Fight for Simplicity: We eliminate unnecessary processes, stay concise and articulate, and maintain smart frugality while solving problems pragmatically.
    

⭐ 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.

🚀 Insurance Offer

Contribute to making insurance subscription easy and customizable! Did you know that Alan is the first new health insurer in France in 30 years?

The Insurance Offer department is at the heart of Alan's mission to be a trusted health partner. We simplify the insurance process for hundreds of thousands of customers across various countries by crafting straightforward and customizable coverage options. Our scalable distribution stack enables swift and straightforward subscriptions.

🛠️ What you'll build:

• Engineer our acquisition tools end-to-end: Sales, or even prospects themselves, are autonomous to customize coverages, compute the right price and receive contracts for signature in one go.

• Scale our renewal engine: It pilots the yearly review and adjustment of coverages and prices for our entire portfolio, while taking into account changes in legal requirements, consumption trends and economical conditions.

• Develop new capabilities and markets: We continuously broaden Alan's capabilities. Beyond incremental changes, we're making paradigm shifts every year - for instance, in 2024 we tailored the price computation for each prospect while boosting Sales efficiency by 50+%. In 2025, we are building an advanced customization of guarantees.

🌟 Why this role is special:

• Drive growth and profitability: Striking the right pricing is part of Insurance Offer mission.

• Collaborate with experts: Work closely with Insurance experts, business experts and Sales (our main end-users).

• Influence the product experience and direction: Your work will shape user experiences and have a societal impact by formulating fair guarantees and risk mutualization strategies, which encourage responsible behavior and reduce risk selection.

• Simplify Complex Systems: You will address the challenges of offering insurance in multiple countries, each with unique expectations and legal standards. This role demands innovative thinking to distill complexity into simplicity.

• Join a Team Committed to Excellence: Be part of a team that values engineering excellence and continuous improvement.

👥 Who we're looking for:

• Skilled Backend Engineer: You should have a strong background in backend development with a keen interest in full-stack projects.

• Problem Solver: A passion for transforming complex systems into simple, elegant solutions is crucial.

• Experienced Builder: You should have experience designing scalable systems that efficiently handle real-world complexities.

⭐ Is it you we’re looking for?

We are looking for engineers with 3+ years of experience to help us scale our Engineering community from different perspectives (product, tech, and internal organization-wise):

• You’ll be able to tackle high-impact & high-risk projects involving many engineers.

• You’ll design efficient systems and engineering practices to align with and facilitate interactions between multiple teams/products.

• You’ll have the opportunity to mentor other engineers & lead crews (more details in this article).

• You’ll be able to contribute to hiring your future coworkers and shape candidates’ hiring experience (improving our technical assessment process etc...)

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 C-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.

• 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 noise-canceling headphones.

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

• Delightful healthcare insurance. Extremely comprehensive health insurance - 100% of the contribution covered by Alan for you and your family.

• 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.

• Parental leave. Extended parental leave for all new parents.

Important note: we hire people not roles. 

After reading this job description, if you feel like you don’t have all the necessary prerequisites but that it matches where you are now or what you'd like to grow into in your next position, we encourage you to apply!

Not everybody will enter our recruitment process, but all, no matter how underrepresented, should feel free to apply as it can only bring learnings or success.

🔖 Check out our About Alan and Career pages, as well as our Medium, blog and Glassdoor page for more info.