🐼 Who we are
At Alan we are on an important mission to empower everyone to live a longer, healthier life. Our goal is to extend the quality years of life expectancy for everyone.
We are empowering our members to live a longer and healthier life with a ‘one-stop health partner’ model seamlessly integrating insurance, prevention, affordable care access and well-being services. We are redefining healthcare by being both a health insurer and a provider, creating the most member-centric experience in a vast market. We go above and beyond for our members and companies to overcome the day-to-day health obstacles and our product is built to address the biggest pain points they face. With Alan, you’re never al
We partner with 30,000+ companies, with 700K+ members, and cumulate €500M+ and growing ARR.
The team is 600+ people, and we operate in France 🇫🇷, Spain 🇪🇸, Belgium 🇧🇪, and Canada 🇨🇦.
🤘 How we do it ?
People joining Alan are often surprised and delighted by our innovative working method. We have a set of cultural values that guide our approach to work, such as:
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.
⭐️ The Engineering Lead job at Alan
At Alan, Engineering Leads are exceptional technical leaders who combine strategic vision with hands-on leadership to drive both team excellence and technical innovation. Our Engineering Leads are deeply involved in the strategic technical and product direction of the team, as well as the human aspects of building high-performing engineering teams.
🚀 Your Mission
As an Engineering Lead at Alan, you'll be responsible for leading one of our engineering teams, comprising 6-15 engineers and organized in autonomous and nimble crews. You'll shape the technical vision, foster a culture of innovation, continuous learning, and ensure your teams deliver impactful solutions while maintaining engineering excellence.
In this role, you will:
Set and communicate a clear vision for why and what we're building, establishing high expectations and identifying key assets and opportunities.
Bring daily energy to the team, providing context and fostering mutual help to create a motivated and engaged team.
Own the engineering efficiency and excellence of your team by using productivity tools (including AI), zooming in and out depending on the needs of the team.
Challenge what's "good enough" to build and ship, while removing sources of unnecessary defocus.
Monitor team well-being and ensure psychological safety to maintain a healthy team dynamic.
Own talent density by hiring exceptional talent, supporting team members' growth and addressing performance concerns promptly.
Collaborate daily with stakeholders, product managers, designers, other engineering leads, etc.
This is the perfect role for you if you have exceptional people management skills, a great technical background and if you are passionate about building both great products and great teams. A minimum of 3 to 5 years of experience in engineering management is required.
🧱 Platform Engineering:
You'll lead the teams building the foundation of Alan's engineering excellence. Your mission will be to help the team develop and maintain the tools (eg. Github Actions, Rspack), infrastructure, and practices that enable our entire engineering organization to move fast and reliably. You'll work closely with other engineering teams to understand their needs and build solutions that scale our technical capabilities.
🙌 Perks & Benefits
At Alan, we believe that being in good health is a basic need, and it starts with our employees. This is why Alaners are provided with a stimulating environment and perks ensuring they are happy, efficient and spend only high-quality time with co-workers.
Therefore, we offer:
Fair rewards. Generous equity packages complement your base salary.
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 noise-canceling headphones.
Flexible vacation policy and flexible working hours. Organize your time as you wish.
Delightful healthcare insurance. Extremely comprehensive health insurance - 100% of the contribution covered by Alan for you and your family.
Transport. Country-specific commuter benefits.
Learning & Training opportunities. A highly flexible Training policy free books and budget to attend and speak at conferences if the opportunity arises.
Parental leave. Extended parental leave for all new parents.
Important note: we hire people not roles.
After reading this job description, if you feel like you don’t have all the necessary prerequisites but that it matches where you are now or what you'd like to grow into in your next position, we encourage you to apply!
Not everybody will enter our recruitment process, but all, no matter how underrepresented, should feel free to apply as it can only bring learnings or success.
🔖 Check out our About Alan and Career pages, as well as our Medium, blog and Glassdoor page for more info.
