Fullstack Software Engineer (x/f/m) - Payroll & Benefits Platform for HR

YOU. BETTER. WITH ALAN. 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. HOW WE WORK: OUR LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES - Mission is the Boss — We think long-term and are methodical optimists who take risks, seeking our mission's success above all else. - Distributed Ownership — Accountable enlightened despots: everyone owns their decisions and results. - Radical Transparency — All information is accessible and written-first, so everyone can make the best decisions asynchronously. - Always Growing — Direct, positive, and caring feedback, combined with self-growth ownership. ⭐ MAKE A TANGIBLE IMPACT EVERY DAY When companies choose Alan, HR teams are the ones making it happen: enrolling employees, managing payroll contributions, and handling billing. Our mission is to make these processes frictionless, reliable, and even delightful. As a Software Engineer on this team, you will: - Engineer our employee affiliation engine: reliably process thousands of lifecycle events daily. - Simplify payroll and billing: craft tools that HR teams love 💙. - Build seamless integrations: connect with platforms like Payfit and Workday so things “just work.” - Automate workflows at scale: adapt solutions to companies of all sizes across multiple countries. - Make billing delightful: ensure invoices are accurate, reliable, and easy to manage. - Collaborate across teams: partner with product, design, and ops to deliver a unified experience. WHY THIS ROLE IS SPECIAL: - Work on mission-critical systems powering Alan’s growth and renewals. - Impact hundreds of thousands of lives, making it simple for companies to use Alan. - Solve complex business and technical puzzles, while maintaining our “uncompromising simplicity” principle. - Shape product direction and experience, not just ship code. - Join a team obsessed with engineering excellence and continuous learning. 🛠 YOUR PLAYGROUND - Stack: Python/Flask, React, React Native, PostgreSQL. - What you’ll do: ship solutions that handle high complexity and scale across multiple countries, collaborating closely with product and design teams. - Impact: your work touches core business operations and enables hundreds of thousands of employees to benefit from Alan every day. 👥 WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR - We are looking for software engineers of all experience levels, ideally with backend and full-stack experience. - Comfortable digging into complex business logic, especially around insurance and payroll. - Passionate about turning complex processes into simple, elegant solutions. - Experienced in building scalable systems that handle real-world complexity. - B2B experience is a plus! - Well-versed in OOP languages (Python, Java, C#) and excited about modern web technologies (JavaScript). - Fluent in English (French is a plus but not required). - Curious, self-starting, humble, collaborative, and eager to grow. 🙌 PERKS & BENEFITS - Fair rewards & equity packages. - Flexible office & remote options. - Top-tier equipment: MacBook Pro, monitor, noise-canceling headphones. - Flexible vacation & hours. - Comprehensive healthcare for you, children, and partners. - Transport support and coaching for personal growth. - Training budget for conferences, courses, books. - Extended parental leave for all parents. 🔄 RECRUITMENT NOTE - You may ultimately join the part of the engineering organization where you can have the most impact. - We hire people, not roles. Don’t worry if you don’t check every box — high potential and curiosity matter most. 🔖 Check out our About Alan https://alan.com/about and Career https://alan.com/careers pages, as well as our Medium https://medium.com/alan, blog https://blog.alan.com/ and Glassdoor page https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Alan-EI_IE1696043.11,15.htm for more info. 🔄 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 https://www.notion.so/alaninsurance/Software-Engineering-Areas-Alan-2c61426e8be7805bacd2cdbc08c32640?source=copy_link.