Senior Platform Engineer, Alan
Data Retention & Privacy
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Digital healthcare insurance
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Digital healthcare insurance
1001+ employees
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More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make the healthcare system frictionless, fair and friendly for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Senior/staff-level backend or platform engineering, we're hiring at level E or above band. We care about evidence & deep production ownership, not a year count
- You've built and operated platforms, libraries, or services that other engineers depend on, and you care about the contract you expose to them
- You're comfortable operating across many teams and influencing without authoritarianism: getting legal, security, data, and product crews who don't 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 don't 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
- You're 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: you're as comfortable writing a framing doc, drawing a dependency map, and aligning several areas on a design decision as you are writing the code
- You're an enabler: you measure your impact by how fast areas run their own data rules without ever consulting you. The harder you've 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
- You're fluent in English (French is not required)
- Remember, this is just a guide, not a checklist
- If you're excited about this opportunity but don't check every box, we'd love to hear from you
What the job involves
- 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
- You'll own the Data Privacy Orchestrator, the platform 15+ areas and 1M+ members depend on to handle personal data safely. Your job is to build safe-by-default abstractions at scale and enable every area to run its own data lifecycle, so the platform no longer depends on one person
- 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 Data Privacy Orchestrator 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
- Own and run the platform: its core engine, safety mechanisms (preview/dry-run, audit trail), and operational health (deploys, on-call, observability)
- Build the paved road: docs, templates, and self-serve tooling so any area plugs in and manages its own data rules, you build the capability, not do the work for them
- Bridge across areas: align legal, security, data, and product on requirements; resolve deletion-ordering trade-offs. Each area stays accountable for its own data
- Grow the surface: extend coverage across data stores and third-party systems as Alan expands into new countries
- What you'll ship in your first 6 months:
- A hardened Data Privacy Orchestrator (safety + observability) running in production, documented end-to-end
- Extend coverage across data stores and third-party systems, in step with Alan's expansion into new countries
- Own the platform: become the long-term owner of the platform for GDPR-compliant data lifecycle 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 platform's reach across data stores and third-party systems as Alan expands into new countries
Our take
Alan addresses health insurance for businesses and employees in Europe through a healthcare app, backed by official regulatory approval. This endorsement grants Alan the ability to offer a wide range of regulated healthcare insurance services, distinguishing itself in the market.
Focused on user experience and customer satisfaction, Alan employs a people-centric approach, streamlining insurance claims and designing user-friendly health insurance products. While competitors like Babylon and Ada Health exist, Alan's primary focus on health insurance sets it apart.
Despite macroeconomic challenges prompting a goal realignment, Alan achieved significant revenue growth in 2023 and reached a valuation of $4.5 billion in late 2024. This was driven by impressive funding rounds and an expansion of its client base, leveraging AI tools for enhanced productivity. With a robust cash revenue, Alan plans to sustain growth, consolidate its position in the existing markets, and explore expansion into new territories, positioning itself for a potential future IPO.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jun 2026
$456.6m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2026
$114.2m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company benefits
- 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-cancelling headphones
- Flexible vacation policy and flexible working hours: Organise your time as you wish
- Delightful healthcare insurance: Extremely comprehensive health insurance - 100% of the contribution covered by Alan for you and your family, for permanent contracts only
- Transport: Country-specific commuter benefits
- Learning & Training opportunities: A highly flexible Training policy free books and a budget to attend and speak at conferences if the opportunity arises
- Parental leave: Extended parental leave for all new parents, for permanent contracts only
Company HQ
Plaine-Monceau, Paris, France
Leadership
Charles Gorintin
(Co-Founder & CTO)Co-founding Advisor at Mistral AI. Previously a Data Scientist at Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founding Advisor and Board Member at Mistral AI. Previously co-founded Expliseat.
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