Security Software Engineer, Alan
Tech Foundations
+ Generous equity packages complement your base salary, for permanent contracts only.
Digital healthcare insurance
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Digital healthcare insurance
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Generous equity packages complement your base salary, for permanent contracts only.
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make the healthcare system frictionless, fair and friendly for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Strong background in application and infrastructure security. Application Security Testing and Penetration Testing are not just buzzwords for you, you have hands-on experience using these techniques to identify and mitigate security vulnerabilities in web and mobile applications
- Experience in protecting organisations from cyber threats and have experience working with platforms to monitor, detect, and respond to security incidents
- Passionate about building secure products and systems
- Familiarity with cloud security and modern web application security
- 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!)
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 product interaction
- We move fast, with a lot of ownership, and are proud to tackle big problems!
- We do security as we do everything else — that is, not quite the traditional way, but always in line with our leadership principles
- 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
- Ech Foundations enables Product Crews to experiment and ship product increments quickly, fostering product quality and reliability with security as a nonnegotiable attribute
- Infrastructure enablement for product crews (e.g. hosting improvements, CI/CD, ...)
- Security and compliance facilitation (e.g. authentication, database anonymization...)
- Developer productivity enhancements (e.g. local environment setup, monorepo tooling, custom CLI and dashboards ...)
- Design and development unification (e.g. Design System, ...)
- 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
- Member & Customer-led: We are obsessively focused on solving customer problems and creating delightful experiences while building trust
- Excellence like Athletes: We maintain high standards and talent density, using the Keeper Test to ensure exceptional performance
- Enlightened Despots: We combine distributed ownership with accountability, empowering decision-makers while maintaining responsibility
- Radically Transparent: We make information accessible and written-first, promoting async communication while protecting sensitive data
- Kind, Methodic Optimists: We collaborate genuinely without ego, support teammates, and maintain positive intent while assuming the best
- Empathetic Challengers: We give direct feedback with empathy, praise strengths, and focus on growth through candid communication
- Bold & Creative Contrarians: We think differently to achieve greatness, challenge expertise with first principles, and embrace calculated risks
- Disciplined Executors: We focus on making good decisions quickly, maintain accountability, and break down problems into manageable pieces
- Fight for Simplicity: We eliminate unnecessary processes, stay concise and articulate, and maintain smart frugality while solving problems pragmatically
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 it 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 readjustment of goals, Alan achieved significant revenue growth in 2023, driven by expanding its clientele and 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 potential future IPO.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2024
$195.1m
SERIES F
May 2022
$206.4m
SERIES E
Total funding: $750.7m
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
(CTO)Co-founding Advisor at Mistral AI. Previously a Data Scientist at Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
Co-founding Advisor and Board Member at Mistral AI. Previously co-founded Expliseat.
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