Backend Engineer / Slash Team

Overview

We're a product-first team on a mission to build the cybersecurity culture of every company in the world.

Riot started with chat-based cybersecurity training employees actually engage with. Then phishing simulations to train them against real attacks. After sending millions, we knew the attacker\'s playbook — so we built Slash to catch what attackers send for real.

Today, Riot is the employee security company , with products that cover every angle of how employees interact with security:

• Awareness — chat-based cybersecurity courses employees genuinely engage with, plus Studio , which lets security teams build their own custom training in minutes.
• Simulation — realistic phishing and smishing campaigns that train employees in a safe environment.
• Inbox — the AI-powered 24/7 cyber hotline for your security team. Employees report suspicious emails and ask IT/Security questions, Albert classifies and prioritizes them, and your team responds — fast.
• Sonar — DLP for Google Drive and OneDrive that stops data leaks before they happen. Sonar audits sharing configurations, gives employees clear guidance on what\'s safe to share with which partners, and delegates everyday decisions to your team while you keep control.
• Slash — email security that catches the attacks your filter misses. Albert alerts employees inside suspicious emails before they click, combines semantic and technical signals to spot sophisticated threats, and instantly removes confirmed threats from every inbox in the company.

Created in 2020, Riot has raised $45m from top-tier investors (Y Combinator, Base10, Funders Club, Frst Capital), and now protects more than 2,000,000 employees in over 2,000 companies — including Intercom, Deel, Deezer, L\'Occitane, Lovable, and Veolia — around the world.

Cybersecurity is everywhere. It impacts everyone, every day, and it\'s the number one risk to any organization. Yet the cybersecurity posture in most companies is still a disaster, and hackers are exploiting it by targeting the weakest link: employees. We\'re on a mission to fix that — at scale.

Responsibilities

The team is small, senior, and trusted. Engineers own features end-to-end and shape the product alongside PMs, designers — if a detection rule is wrong, you fix it. We ship fast, review hard, and use AI tooling aggressively to do both.

• Ship new Slash features end-to-end: detection logic, in-email experiences, admin tooling.
• Build robust systems that analyze millions of emails a day with the latency and reliability email security demands.
• Organize the backend code base and shape the standards the team follows.
• Research, pitch, and prototype solutions to hard problems.

Tech stack and tooling

• Backend: Elixir, Phoenix, PostgreSQL, Oban, LiveView
• Ops: AWS, Terraform, Datadog, Sentry
• Frontend: Vue 3, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Cypress
• AI tooling: Claude Code, Codex, Cubic

Qualifications

• You're a doer. That\'s core to Riot\'s culture.
• You have 2+ years of experience building backend applications in production.
• You're comfortable working professionally with SQL and relational data modeling.
• You're already using AI coding tools seriously.
• You're a team player, eager to give feedback and happy to receive it as a learning opportunity.
• You know how to prioritize to ship on time — speed of execution is key, without compromising quality.
• You don\'t need to be a cybersecurity expert, but you need to be motivated by the mission.
• Elixir/Phoenix experience is a plus, not a requirement — we\'ve onboarded strong engineers from Ruby, Python, and Go backgrounds.
• You\'re based in Paris or willing to relocate.

Hiring process

• First call with Thomas, our Talent Acquisition Manager (30 min)
• Technical interview — system design — with the Engineering Manager (1h)
• Take-home case study
• Onsite cultural fit interview with your manager and a future teammate (1h30)
• Fit interview with our CTO (30 min)

Note on AI and culture

• You have high standards: expect performance to be nothing short of the best.
• You\'re enthusiastic at heart: you exhibit passion and excitement over the work.
• You don\'t just use AI tools — you push them. You\'re already rethinking your workflow every few weeks as the tools evolve, and you\'d be bored anywhere that isn\'t doing the same.

Location and benefits

• Join a financially healthy company. We\'re capital-efficient, and fundraising fuels our momentum rather than keeping the lights on.
• Contribute to a fast-growing startup with a clear vision and clear business goals. We\'ve tripled revenue over the past two years and plan to grow from €20M to €40M ARR in 2026.
• Work alongside a team that takes AI adoption seriously — you\'ll have the tools, the budget, and the mandate to push the boundary of what\'s possible with AI-assisted engineering.
• Experience the energy of a collaborative team in our modern and cosy office in the heart of Paris: République / Canal Saint-Martin.