Elixir / Erlang: market
An Elixir/Erlang Developer builds high-load, fault-tolerant server systems in Elixir or Erlang: real-time backends, chat, queues, payment and telecom services where thousands of concurrent connections and non-stop operation matter. We currently track 38 open positions for this role, 37 of them fresh. The core is Elixir or Erlang, OTP (processes, supervisors, GenServer), the Phoenix framework and LiveView, Ecto and PostgreSQL, message queues (RabbitMQ, Kafka) and distributed systems basics. By co-occurrence in requirements, Elixir, React, TypeScript and PostgreSQL appear most often. 77% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is a live slice of the Elixir/Erlang Developer market: geography, seniority, adjacent stack and sources.
The Elixir / Erlang market currently has 38 open roles, 37 of them freshly observed.
77% of Elixir/Erlang Developer postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the format.
⚠ salary known for 0 of 38 jobs; remote share from 35 with a stated format; 37 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Timeline: postings and sources
How many Elixir / Erlang postings appeared each week since 4 May, and from how many sources. The second line separates market growth from coverage growth: a jump in the week new sources were connected means we started seeing more, not that the market grew.
New postings and active sources per week
Sources over the period: 28
New sources connected: 1 Jun +1 · 8 Jun +1 · 15 Jun +1 · 22 Jun +1 · 29 Jun +2 · 6 Jul +4 · 13 Jul +3 · 20 Jul +1 · 27 Jul +2 · 24 Aug +1 · 28 Sept +2 · 5 Oct +2 · 12 Oct +4
Week = posting first-seen date, all statuses; postings are selected by the same rule as this page's counter. Sources are distinct collection channels; their names are not published.
Demand and observed supply: Elixir / Erlang
| Open demand | 38 |
| Observed supply | — not published |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution: Elixir / Erlang
The range histogram for Elixir/Erlang Developer uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
The chart will appear once enough observations accumulate for this breakdown.
Demand geography: Elixir / Erlang
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| US | 5 |
| PL | 3 |
| RU | 3 |
| GB | 3 |
| BR | 2 |
| CA | 2 |
| DE | 2 |
| IN | 1 |
| IT | 1 |
| GR | 1 |
The top country for Elixir/Erlang Developer demand is the US (5 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
In Elixir/Erlang Developer requirements the most frequently named skills and technologies are Elixir, React, TypeScript and PostgreSQL.
Demand by grade: Elixir / Erlang
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 14 |
| principal | 4 |
| lead | 2 |
| middle | 1 |
Senior-and-above is about 95% of 21 Elixir/Erlang Developer postings with an explicit grade.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers: Elixir / Erlang
Demand is spread across 22 employers. The largest accounts for 12.9%, the top ten for 61.3%; the remaining 38.7% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 12.9% |
| top-3 | 29.0% |
| top-10 | 61.3% |
| long tail | 38.7% |
Elixir/Erlang Developer openings come from 22 distinct employers.
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 18 sources; the largest accounts for 13.2% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Elixir/Erlang Developer postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings: Elixir / Erlang
- Full Stack Engineer (Elixir Backend Focus) · BR
- Full Stack Engineer (Elixir Backend Focus) · IN
- Full Stack Engineer (Elixir Backend Focus) · CA
- AI Product Engineer (Elixir)
- Senior Backend Product Engineer (Elixir) · PL
- Senior Product Engineer, Treasury (Elixir) · US
- Founding Backend Engineer (Elixir) · RU
- Founding Backend Engineer (Elixir) · RU
Adjacent markets
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
How this is measured
- Vacancy
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Observed candidate
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchable candidate
- not counted yet
- Window
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
About the data
- Some breakdowns are hidden: their data coverage is not yet sufficient.
- Statistics are shown only where the sample clears a quality gate.
- A missing block does not mean a value of zero.
Breakdowns currently hidden: 9.
Data as of 2026-10-23
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the Elixir/Erlang Developer role — short answers from the same data slice.
What does an Elixir/Erlang Developer do?
An Elixir/Erlang Developer builds high-load, fault-tolerant server systems in Elixir or Erlang: real-time backends, chat, queues, payment and telecom services where thousands of concurrent connections and non-stop operation matter.
Which skills do Elixir/Erlang Developer postings require?
The core is Elixir or Erlang, OTP (processes, supervisors, GenServer), the Phoenix framework and LiveView, Ecto and PostgreSQL, message queues (RabbitMQ, Kafka) and distributed systems basics. In the current slice, Elixir, React, TypeScript and PostgreSQL appear in requirements most often.
How does Elixir differ from Erlang?
Elixir runs on the same BEAM virtual machine and uses Erlang/OTP libraries, but adds a more modern syntax, macros and tooling (Mix, Hex). That is why job postings often group them: OTP knowledge counts in both.
How remote-friendly are Elixir/Erlang Developer jobs?
77% of postings with an explicit format allow fully remote work; the slice tracks 38 open positions.
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