Software Engineer

Elixir Functional programmer or Elixir Functional specialist

Work: Hyderabad (Hybrid)

Essential Experience:

● 7 to 13 years of functional programming experience with Elixir, Erlang, Clojure, or Haskell

● Legacy system modernization - proven track record of inheriting and improving complex codebases

● Polyglot programming - comfortable working across multiple languages and making migration decisions

● Distributed systems understanding - middleware, message passing, fault tolerance concepts

● Reverse engineering skills - ability to understand undocumented systems through code analysis

Technical Skills:

● Deep understanding of functional programming principles: immutability, pattern matching, higher-order functions

● Experience with OTP (Open Telecom Platform) concepts, GenServers, and supervision trees

● Knowledge of concurrent programming and actor model architectures

● Kafka experience highly preferred - event streaming, message processing, and distributed data pipelines

● Proficiency in Node.js, Python, or Go for migration targets

● Database experience (MySQL, Redis) and API design (REST, GraphQL)

● AWS ecosystem familiarity

Leadership & Communication:

● Mentoring experience - ability to transfer knowledge and coach team members

● Strong documentation and communication skills for knowledge transfer

● Experience working with offshore development teams

● Comfortable making architectural decisions with limited initial context

Technology Environment

Current Stack:

● Elixir/Phoenix with OTP architecture

● MySQL and Redis for data persistence

● Kafka for event streaming and data processing

● AWS infrastructure (SQS, SNS, Lambda)

● Docker containerization

● Integration with Salesforce multi-instance architecture

Migration Targets:

Node.js, Python, or Go (to be determined)

● Microservices architecture

● Enhanced monitoring and observability tools