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

Department: Engineering

Location: Anywhere in France, Belgium, Spain

Employment Type: FullTime

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 and Career pages, as well as our Medium, blog and Glassdoor page 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.