Senior Software Engineer - Tech Foundations

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the privacy platform and GDPR Orchestrator, including its core engine, safety mechanisms, audit trail, deploys, on-call operations, and observability.
• Build documentation, templates, libraries, and self-service tooling that help engineering areas manage their own data rules and dependencies.
• Design platform contracts, data models, reusable guardrails, and safe-by-default abstractions for data lifecycle management.
• Coordinate legal, security, data, product, and data-producing teams around requirements, dependencies, and design trade-offs.
• Write, deploy, and operate production code, including rollouts, alerting, incident response, and ongoing platform improvements.

Requirements

• Typically 8+ years of senior-level experience in backend or platform software engineering, or equivalent.
• Experience building and operating platforms, libraries, or services that other engineers depend on, with strong API, contract, data modeling, and production ownership skills.
• Ability to influence and align multiple teams without direct authority and drive cross-area initiatives to completion.
• Hands-on experience writing and operating production software, particularly with Python and TypeScript.
• Strong communication and design skills, including framing documents, dependency mapping, and cross-team technical decision-making.
• Privacy, GDPR, data-governance, or enabling/platform-team experience is strongly preferred.
• Fluent English is required; French is not required.
• Applicants must be legally eligible to work in France, Belgium, or Spain.

Benefits

• Remote work flexibility with an emphasis on in-person collaboration.
• Alan provides a stimulating work environment, perks, and an innovative working method focused on high-quality collaboration.