6 hours ago
Remote, Spain +2 moreSenior
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the events pipeline using a PostgreSQL outbox, Redis Streams, and an S3 archive.
- Build data replication capabilities that maintain fresh, local read-only copies between services.
- Develop tools and standards for extracting capabilities from the monolith into scalable services.
- Own shared backend runtime components, including queues, caching, transactions, limits, SLOs, and headroom.
- Define backend engineering direction, service APIs, dependency management, and cross-service tracing with other engineering teams.
- Build platform products that product teams can adopt and operate independently.
- Measure system performance, optimize based on evidence, and establish SLOs and alerts for owned systems.
- Influence engineering practices across teams without direct reporting authority.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of backend engineering experience with libraries, frameworks, pipelines, or internal platforms used by other teams.
- Production ownership experience and daily experience with distributed systems, events, messaging, delivery guarantees, ordering, idempotence, retries, replication, consistency, and transactions.
- Deep PostgreSQL knowledge, including transactions, locks, replication, and query plans.
- Experience splitting a monolith or building services incrementally while production remains operational.
- English working proficiency; French is not required.
- A product mindset focused on adoption by internal product teams and an ability to enable others.
- Strong plus: platform-team experience, event-driven architecture at scale, CDC or logical replication, asynchronous Python, multi-region or data-residency experience, or experience with health, payments, or other regulated data.
- Frontend, Kubernetes and cluster operations, database administration, and LLM or AI expertise are not required.
Benefits
- Remote work flexibility with an emphasis on in-person collaboration.
- Work location is available for people legally eligible to work in France, Belgium, or Spain.
- Alan provides a stimulating environment, workplace perks, and an innovative working method.
Tech Stack
About Alan
Alan is a Paris-based digital health insurer that sells group and individual health coverage with integrated care and prevention tools to employers, the self-employed, and public-sector workers. Its app bundles claims, a virtual clinic, care navigation, and mental well-being services, delivered under a direct, no-intermediary model. Founded in 2016, it serves members primarily in France, Belgium, and Spain.