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

Alan

Alan

Accounting & Finance, Software Engineering, People & HR
France · Spain · Belgium
Posted on Dec 16, 2025

Location

Anywhere in France, Belgium, Spain

Employment Type

Full time

Department

Engineering

🐼 Who we are

You. Better. With Alan.

Alan's vision is to make prevention the new norm of care for all. Our mission is to 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.

We're building a vertically integrated health partner that seamlessly unites insurance and smart healthcare delivery into one system.

By connecting all aspects of care - private, public, and direct to consumer - we create the most member-centric healthcare experience. Through deep engagement, we empower everyone to overcome day-to-day health obstacles and live healthier lives.

We partner with 35K+ companies of all sizes, serving more than 1M users , and have reached 770M+ in ARR.

Our team of 700+ people (still growing) operates across France 🇫🇷, Spain 🇪🇸, Belgium 🇧🇪, and Canada 🇨🇦.

🤘 How we do it ?

People joining Alan are always surprised and delighted by our innovative working method. We have a set of cultural values that guide our approach to work, such as:

🎯 What drives us - We're obsessed with helping members live healthier

  • Mission is the Boss: long-term thinking, mission above all else

  • Member & customer-led: obsessed with solving problems and delighting users

🏆 How we build excellence - We hire the best and empower them to succeed

  • Champions of excellence: extremely high standards and talent density

  • Distributed ownership: everyone owns their decisions and results

  • Radically transparent: all information accessible, written-first, async decisions

🤝 How we grow together - We improve through honest feedback and bold thinking

  • Optimistic alchemy: optimists who collaborate with genuine care

  • Empathetic challengers: direct, caring feedback to help each other grow

  • Bold contrarians: think differently, try new approaches

⚡ How we move fast — We fight complexity and focus on what matters

  • Disciplined execution: decisive action with compounding focus

  • Fight for simplicity: high-impact processes, smart frugality

⭐ 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.