Backend Engineer – Awareness Platform

Riot; Paris; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Office in Paris

On-site with remote days

Job summary

Riot is hiring a backend engineer in Paris to build scalable learning and security platforms. You will own services end-to-end, collaborate with product and design, and ensure reliability for millions of learners and admins.

We value practical experience with Elixir/Phoenix, PostgreSQL, and SQL, plus a willingness to work with AI tooling to improve development workflows. This is an on-site role with occasional remote days.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience building backend applications in production.
• Comfortable working with SQL and relational data modeling.
• Motivated to use AI coding tools and modern tooling.

Responsibilities

• Ship and maintain backend features end-to-end.
• Build robust systems serving millions of learners and thousands of admins.
• Organize backend codebase and establish team standards.
• Research, pitch, and prototype solutions to hard problems.

Skills

Backend dev

Elixir

Phoenix

PostgreSQL

SQL

Tools

Claude Code

Codex

Cubic

Job description

Riot is hiring a backend engineer in Paris to build scalable learning and security platforms. You will own services end-to-end, collaborate with product and design, and ensure reliability for millions of learners and admins.

We value practical experience with Elixir/Phoenix, PostgreSQL, and SQL, plus a willingness to work with AI tooling to improve development workflows. This is an on-site role with occasional remote days.