We are looking for an experienced and ambitious Lead Erlang Engineer to join our team and contribute to the development of a high-performance financial platform for international fintech client. This is an ongoing project – development of a brand-new, high-performance financial platform designed with a modern, cloud-native, microservices architecture. Erlang is at the heart of the system, powering distributed services that handle huge transaction volumes with high reliability and availability. This is a rare opportunity to apply Erlang expertise in a fintech setting and to play a key role in shaping a product with real business impact.

Because of data security reasons, the project can be accessed only from within the EU, therefore, physical presence in the EU is necessary.

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What you’ll be doing:

Design and implement scalable, distributed microservices in Erlang
Work closely with architects and business analysts to translate requirements into solutions
Drive the feature implementation
Ensure high availability, resilience, and performance across the system
Provide technical leadership and guidance to the development team
Contribute to the overall architecture and technical direction of the platform

What we are looking for in a Lead Erlang Engineer is:

7+ years of professional software development experience
3+ years of hands-on Erlang development
Proven experience in distributed systems, concurrency, and high-availability platforms
Strong knowledge of open telecom platform principles (supervision, fault tolerance, testing)
Familiarity with Kafka and message-driven architectures
Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate with architects, BAs, and stakeholders
Initiative and ability to resolve complex and ambiguous problems
Comfortable working in a remote, international team
Capability to drive the feature implementation

It would be cool if you also have, but it’s not necessary:

Experience with other technologies (Java, C++ , Elixir, Scala)
Experience with Queue technologies (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
Experience with NoSQL technology
Experience with Erlang distributed databases

A little bit about us:

Pontis Technology is a Croatian IT service company with offices in Croatia, Germany, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Pontis Technology is a Ponteva company. Ponteva is a member of the Bridgewest Group, a global private investment firm.

We love to have fun, but we’re not joking around when it comes to technology.

We design and deliver advanced software and AI-driven solutions for global companies, helping them innovate, scale, and transform through technology and AI. Our full-cycle development capabilities are powered by teams of Front-end and Back-end Engineers, Machine Learning Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Designers, QA Engineers, Data Engineers, Project Managers and Business Analysts.

2023 was a big year for us. We established Pontis Technology in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, broadening our employee network on their propulsive market. In 2023, we were awarded the best new Company in Croatia according to an independent survey by the biggest job portal in Croatia – Moj Posao. Not only that, we were named 3rd best small company in all of Croatia.

Since then, not a lot of time has passed, but a lot has happened for Pontis. We’re no longer a small company since there is more than 115 of us and in 2024, we made our first acquisition. We have successfully acquired Clover Studio, a company with international clients focusing on app development and design and founded our machine learning team with 20 people.

If you are excited about new technologies as we are, or you are curious to hear more about our company or the project, send us your application! We are excited to welcome new members!

Also, here are some highlights of what we offer.

WORK-LIFE BALANCE & HEALTH

Flexible working hours & remote work

Lead Erlang Engineer (m/f)

Pontis Technology d.o.o.

Pontis Technology d.o.o.

Average net salary for the category IT, telekomunikacije is 1690.26 EUR*