Software Engineer (Security) - Tech Foundations

Alan

1d•Remote

About The Position

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. 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! 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. 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. Security core components in the product 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. 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. Security platforms Secure file exchange - evolve and operate our secure file exchange platform to unblock product/ops teams while bringing support when relevant. Secure enclave for medical secrecy - contribute to the foundations to isolate and protect highly sensitive medical data without sacrificing usability or delivery speed. Contribute to reinforce our security engineering practices (fixing security vulnerabilities, CI/CD, SAST/DAST, Infrastructure Security, AI/LLM Security, etc…). 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.

Requirements

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
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)
You must be legally eligible to work in France, Belgium, or Spain

Nice To Haves

French is a bonus

Responsibilities

design, build and operate the authentication stack on top of our self-hosted identity provider
build, evolve and operate our end-to-end encryption component used by our Alan Clinic while keeping it delightful and frictionless for our members
evolve and operate our secure file exchange platform to unblock product/ops teams while bringing support when relevant
contribute to the foundations to isolate and protect highly sensitive medical data without sacrificing usability or delivery speed
Contribute to reinforce our security engineering practices (fixing security vulnerabilities, CI/CD, SAST/DAST, Infrastructure Security, AI/LLM Security, etc…)

Benefits

Alaners are provided with a stimulating environment and perks ensuring they are happy, efficient and spend only high-quality time with co-workers.
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

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