Software Engineer Internship (6 months)

  • Location
  • Paris, France
  • Last Published
  • Dec. 11, 2024
  • Sector
  • Fintech
  • Function
  • Software Engineering

🐼 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 alone.
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:

  1. 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.
  2. Member & Customer-led: We are obsessively focused on solving customer problems and creating delightful experiences while building trust.
  3. Excellence like Athletes: We maintain high standards and talent density, using the Keeper Test to ensure exceptional performance.
  4. Enlightened Despots: We combine distributed ownership with accountability, empowering decision-makers while maintaining responsibility.
  5. Radically Transparent: We make information accessible and written-first, promoting async communication while protecting sensitive data.
  6. Kind, Methodic Optimists: We collaborate genuinely without ego, support teammates, and maintain positive intent while assuming the best.
  7. Empathetic Challengers: We give direct feedback with empathy, praise strengths, and focus on growth through candid communication.
  8. Bold & Creative Contrarians: We think differently to achieve greatness, challenge expertise with first principles, and embrace calculated risks.
  9. Disciplined Executors: We focus on making good decisions quickly, maintain accountability, and break down problems into manageable pieces.
  10. Fight for Simplicity: We eliminate unnecessary processes, stay concise and articulate, and maintain smart frugality while solving problems pragmatically.

⭐️ The Engineering team ⭐️

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 intern at Alan means joining a team of talented, committed and passionate Engineers, with a lot of product interactions.

You'll have the opportunity to take ownership of projects quickly, whilst being mentored by talented senior engineers.

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.

Our stack is Python/Flask, React/Redux, React Native, PostgreSQL.

Want to know more? Read this article if you want to discover how life as an Engineer at Alan looks like, and how our Engineering team is organised take a look here.

For this opportunity, we are aiming to hire at the B1 level.

⭐️ Is it you we’re looking for? ⭐️

Please note that for this internship, you need to be based in France.

You would be a great fit at Alan if most of this sounds like you:

  • You are looking for your 6-month end-of-studies internship
  • You have prior internship or side-projects coding experience, and have already deployed frontend and backend code to production for real users
  • You are willing to work in Python/JavaScript (but you don't need to have experience with those 2 languages!)
  • You are passionate about building products
  • You are self-starting and humble
  • You are collaborative, enthusiastic about teamwork and learning
  • Fluent in English (no need to speak French!)

But above all, we are looking for high potential and curiosity: make sure to show us this when you apply! Everything else is a bonus.

If you want to learn how engineers can grow at Alan, take a look at our Engineering career path.


🙌 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.
  • Flexible Office. Amazing office space at our HQ and sponsored co-working hubs.
  • All the tools you need. Top of the range equipment: Macbook Pro, keyboard, laptop stand, monitor, and Bose noise-canceling headphones.
  • Flexible vacation policy and flexible working hours. Organize your time as you wish.
  • 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.

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.