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Job responsibilities

  • Design, code, test and support software applications
  • Analyze project requirements to propose feasible designs and solutions
  • Design and implement unit tests to find and fix errors
  • Mentor junior developers about best development practices
  • Collaborate with team and product stakeholders to deliver scalable and concurrent systems with high availability

Minimum requirements

  • Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
  • At least 3+ years of development experience using Erlang (rare exceptions for highly skilled developers)
  • Working experience with Erlang for building complex real-time systems
  • Knowledge of distributed computing, concurrency, virtualization, and parallelism
  • Some experience working one or more programming languages such as C, Python, JavaScript, C++, or Java
  • Knowledge of communications protocols (HTTP, SMPP, XMPP, etc.)
  • Fluent in English to communicate effectively
  • Ability to work full-time (40 hours/week) with a 4 hour overlap with US time zones

Preferred skills

  • Knowledge of microservices architecture, Git, Jenkins, Linux, etc.
  • Understanding of VoIP and telecom protocols
  • Understanding of Agile methodologies, functional programming, and test-driven development
  • Proven experience in building chat apps, messaging applications, and other real-time systems
  • Previous experience in handling large-scale software projects
  • Good interpersonal and communication skills
  • Strong troubleshooting and project management skills

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How to become an Erlang developer?

Erlang is a functional, concurrent language with a strong focus on building scalable, fault-tolerant systems that provide high availability guarantees. Erlang builds upon the Actor model, creating isolated processes that communicate through asynchronous message passing. This allows for concurrency and fault-tolerance not normally found in languages such as C/C++ or Java.

Erlang is a general-purpose, concurrent, functional programming language designed for scalability and fault tolerance. It is garbage-collected and statically typed. A normal Erlang application is built out of hundreds of concurrent small Erlang processes, each encapsulating a set of state variables whose value does not change or need to be updated as part of executing the process.

What is the scope of Erlang development?

Erlang's main distinguishing feature is its programming model. In Erlang, processes are isolated, lightweight entities that communicate with one another through messages.

The Erlang programming language is unusual among modern languages in its immutability, pattern matching, and functional programming. The sequential subset of the language supports eager evaluation, single assignment, and dynamic typing. For simplicity, most Erlang applications are built out of hundreds of small processes. From the looks of it, erlang will be the business world for a long time to come. This will prove beneficial to people who are applying for remorse erlang developer jobs.

What are the roles and responsibilities of an Erlang developer?

The Erlang language is a good choice for messaging between multiple agents across the network. This mapping well to the basic structure of the language. The language is well-suited for creating fast, scalable and reliable web applications. Thus when creating a mobile app merging existing information with new information, using a database with a separate API is one solution to consider. Also, consider collaboration tools that can be easily synchronized with any database.
An Erlang developer handles the following responsibilities:

  • Experience in real-time or embedded software and associated hardware
  • Responsible for the design and development of related operating software
  • Communicate with electronic design engineers to ensure that functionality meets specifications
  • In charge of other Software Engineers within the project team
  • Design, program, evaluate and support Erlang and related software, including some research.
  • Mentor and coach junior staff.

How to become an Erlang developer?

Let’s turn to the route one must take to pursue a career as an Erlang developer. In order to do this, it’s important to bear in mind that employers are often unconcerned about your formal qualifications if you can demonstrate requisite professional experience and knowledge. All that matters is that you have knowledge of both the technical and nontechnical skills required for the job.
However, you should be aware that it is also true that many firms require a bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related area when hiring remote Erlang developer positions. This is due to the fact that having an academic background in computer science or a similar field allows you to have a stronger understanding of the programming languages and web development techniques used in Erlang development, which will make the learning process much easier for you. Furthermore, making it easier for firms who are looking for this specific degree requirement when hiring Erlang developers, thus providing more employment opportunities for you.

Now, let's look at the skills and methods you'll need to master in order to become a successful Erlang developer:

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Skills required to become an Erlang developer

The most essential step is to start learning the fundamental skills that can get you high-paying Erlang developers jobs. Let’s take a look at what you need to know!

1. Erlang

Erlang is a programming language that works well for building massively scalable soft real-time systems, the sort of programs used in telecoms, banking, e-commerce, computer telephony, and instant messaging. Erlang's runtime system, which has built-in support for concurrency, distribution, and fault tolerance, is used by developers to build massively scalable software systems with high requirements on availability.

2. C

C is one of the oldest programming languages in use today, and it remains the most widely used language for the development of software. C provides efficiency and portability. It has been used to implement many systems, and it is the language used for implementing operating systems such as Linux. The C language contains strong support for procedural programming, data abstraction, object-oriented programming, and generic programming.

3. Java

Java is widely used as the main programming language for developing mobile applications. It is compatible with Android Studio and Kotlin, and it also provides support for Graphical User Interface development via AWT, Swing, and JavaFX. Many web applications are also developed in Java, which allows the creation of any kind of web application through Servlets, Struts, or JSP.

4. Communication protocols

Communication protocols allow different types of network devices to communicate with each other. They are used for both analog and digital communications, and are often used for important processes, including file transfers and online access. There are several types of protocols available such as TCP, IP, UDP, HTTP and more.

5. Distributed Systems

Distributed computing is a method of harnessing the power of several computers over a network. When many computers are linked in this way, they form a cluster, which can offer significant performance and cost-effectiveness benefits over an individual computer. With the large volumes of data that many databases now handle and the increasing demands for faster application performance, a distributed infrastructure is essential. This allows applications to avoid a slowdown caused by additional data volume by simply adding more hardware.

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How to get remote Erlang developer jobs?

Erlang developers are a lot like athletes. To excel at their craft, they practice effectively and consistently. They also need to work hard enough that their skills grow gradually over time. In that regard, there are two major factors that Erlang developers must focus on in order for that progress to happen: the support of someone who is more experienced and effective in practice techniques while you're practicing. As a developer, it's vital for you to know how much to practice - so make sure there is someone on hand who will help you out and keep an eye out for any signs of burnout!

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Working with top US corporations, Turing developers make more than the standard market pay in most nations.

How much does Turing pay their Erlang developers?

At Turing, every Erlang developer is allowed to set their own pricing. However, Turing will recommend a salary at which we can find a fruitful and long-term opportunity for you. Our recommendations are based on our assessment of market conditions and the demand that we see from our customers.

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Staff Software Engineer, AI


About the Client

Founded by engineers from  Stanford, Cisco Meraki, and Samsara, we are one of the fastest-growing Video AI companies in the U.S., transforming standard cameras into powerful AI tools that elevate safety, security, and operations for businesses nationwide. In just four years, we have processed more than 1  billion hours of video, and today ingest more daily new videos than  YouTube. Our industry-leading Video AI agents are changing physical operations and defining what video AI can accomplish for physical  operations. We are challenging and disrupting the $30 billion video surveillance market with a plug-and-play camera agnostic solution that is expanding use-cases beyond traditional security. Our approach has fueled fast adoption across 17 industries, powering nearly 1000  businesses and over 70,000 camera feeds. Our exceptionally talented team has created a high growth trajectory that has attracted almost $100 million in investment from top venture firms, including  Redpoint, Scale Venture Partners, Bessemer, StepStone and Qualcomm.



About the Role

We are looking for like-minded builders. We are an extremely passionate and ambitious team building a company designed to outlast our lifetime. No  matter the role or level, we’re looking for more teammates who share the same  high-performance mindset:

  • Relentless Drive: You have extreme ambition and something to prove. Challenges fuels you. Building isn’t just what you do; it’s who you are.
  • Builder’s Mentality: You  thrive on creating new solutions, not maintaining the status quo. If  you've founded a company, been employee number 1 - 20, or have run a  venture for over two years, we’re especially excited to meet you!
  • High Hustle, High Humility: You combine high IQ with high EQ, a low ego, and an unyielding work ethic that pushes you to be among the best at what you do.

Our cultural pillars guide how we operate. We:

  • Spend Strategically. We maximize resources and minimize waste.
  • Push for Progress. We make decisions, move fast, and celebrate action.
  • Obsess Over Customers: We remove friction and add value to create delight.
  • Trust Our Team: Respect, trust and collaboration are non-negotiable.
  • Act Like Owners: We say what we’ll do, and we do what we say, taking pride and responsibility in our work.
  • Never Stop Having Fun: We’re creating something epic, and we’re having fun doing it.


Who you are

  • You are self-motivated and accountable. You  excel with ownership and autonomy, producing high quality outcomes with  minimal direction and oversight. You have strong intuition on what's  most important to work on, and can focus on the most critical items.
  • You are a balanced visionary. You  contribute to strategy with an ability to see the big picture, while  also appreciating details with a drive to make meaningful, hands-on  contributions.
  • You are a humble expert. You  bring strong expertise and nuanced perspectives on the latest AI  technology, while staying open to new ideas and new ways of doing  things. You focus on getting it right in a team setting, rather than  being right.
  • You strive for the next level. You’re ready to stretch your impact and influence and are ready to take on larger scale challenges and/or act as a mentor.
  • You bring rich AI experience. You  have a strong background in AI, ideally with video processing  experience, however, experienced practitioners in AI can adapt as  necessary. You understand classic deep learning techniques, from YOLO to  transformer models to linear classifiers. Yet, you also have experience  with the latest AI foundation models, from embeddings to LLMs and  prompt engineering.
  • You are a creative thinker and problem solver. You  naturally think outside the box to solve new sets of customer problems,  even with few resources. You have a keen eye and technical frameworks  for setting an AI technical direction based on customer context.
  • You bring high-scale technical excellence. You  deeply understand software design, architecture, big-data processing  pipelines, and best practices on systems design + scalability, code  quality, and data/model design. You appreciate the finer details, such  as edge model optimizations, vector indexes and how they work, or how to  design a maintainable data schema. You’ve designed and led complex  systems, shaped multi-team architectures, and created frameworks that  prevent defects and improve validation across products.
  • You’re a debugging and operational excellence expert. You adopt observability tools, tackle unfamiliar codebases, and develop  resources like runbooks to prevent issues. You have an eye for  impending technical issues or optimization opportunities, and  architectural improvements that could be made to increase overall  engineering productivity.
  • You’re a technical leader. You  understand the skill and personal strengths of team members,  effectively mentoring them and placing engineers into the projects that  make them and the company successful
  • You bring 6+ years in software engineering, with significant expertise in AI plus a strong track record in high-quality system delivery.


Responsiilities

You’ll  play a critical role in advancing our capabilities, using your AI  expertise to drive innovative solutions for businesses with physical  environments—from manufacturing plants to car dealerships. Leading the  design and integration of AI-driven features, you’ll elevate both new  and existing products, focusing on scalable, real-world applications  that improve safety, operations, and efficiency. Working closely with  cross-functional teams, you’ll apply cutting-edge AI techniques to  transform video data into actionable insights that empower our clients.  By setting standards in AI reliability and performance, you’ll ensure  Spot AI’s product suite consistently delivers high-impact outcomes.



What excites you:

  • Working  on and thinking about the latest models across multiple domains, such  as Dinov2, CLIP, GPT4o/Gemini. Applying these models to real world  physical problems to enhance safety, operations, and efficiency.
  • Working  with a datastream of over 200k datapoints and embeddings a second,  wrangling this into actionable insights with fast and accurate queries.
  • Helping  to democratize and educate about the latest foundational models to  customers and team members, helping them share your vision of what AI  can do for the world.
  • Working with a global, several thousand  node distributed hybrid edge-cloud, processing millions of hours of  video a day.A place that gives you the room to learn from failure while  driving excellence.
  • Advancing our AI’s product capabilities  by applying cutting-edge AI techniques, helping transform video data  into powerful, real-world solutions for our clients.
  • Designing  and implementing AI-driven features across new and existing products,  with a focus on scalability and tangible value for diverse industries.
  • Diving  into complex challenges in video intelligence, using your expertise to  bring actionable insights to businesses in physical environments.
  • Collaborating  closely with cross-functional teams to build tools and frameworks that  set a new standard for AI performance and reliability in our industry.
  • Mentoring and guiding other engineers to foster collaboration and innovation that increase project impact.
  • A culture where hard work that drives great outcomes is expected, celebrated, and rewarded.
  • A place where you can make industry-wide impact and contribute to one of the most exciting technologies of our time

Offer Details

  • Full-time contractor (no benefits)
  • Remote only, full-time dedication (40 hours/week)
  • 6 hours of overlap with Pacific Timezone
  • Competitive compensation package.
  • Opportunities for professional growth and career development.
  • Dynamic and inclusive work environment focused on innovation and teamwork
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Senior Java Engineer – Snowflake Integration

Job Title: Senior Java Engineer – Snowflake Integration

Experience: 6–10 Years
Location: Gurugram
Work Mode: Hybrid (3 Days Work From Office)

Job Overview

We are looking for a Senior Java Engineer with strong experience in Java 17+, backend system development, and Snowflake integration, to build and maintain enterprise-grade data and transaction systems in the BFSI domain. The role involves working on high-scale, secure, and compliant platforms handling critical financial data.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Java 17+
  • Integrate Java applications with Snowflake Data Cloud for analytics and reporting use cases
  • Build and optimize data pipelines between transactional systems and Snowflake
  • Design and consume RESTful APIs for internal and external integrations
  • Ensure data security, governance, and compliance as per BFSI standards
  • Optimize application performance, scalability, and reliability
  • Collaborate with data engineering, DevOps, and product teams
  • Participate in architecture discussions and technical design reviews
  • Support production systems and perform root cause analysis when required

Mandatory Technical Skills

Core Java & Backend

  • Strong hands-on experience with Java 17 or higher
  • Deep understanding of OOP, multithreading, concurrency, and JVM internals
  • Experience with Spring / Spring Boot
  • Strong experience building RESTful microservices
  • Experience with Hibernate / JPA

Snowflake & Data Integration

  • Hands-on experience integrating applications with Snowflake
  • Strong understanding of:
    • Snowflake architecture and data storage concepts
    • Virtual warehouses, databases, schemas
  • Experience using Snowflake connectors (JDBC/ODBC) from Java
  • Knowledge of data ingestion and transformation patterns
  • Understanding of SQL optimization in Snowflake

Databases

  • Strong experience with RDBMS (PostgreSQL / Oracle / MySQL)
  • Advanced SQL skills and performance tuning
  • Experience handling large datasets and analytical queries

Cloud, DevOps & Tools

  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS / Azure / GCP)
  • Familiarity with Docker and containerized deployments
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines
  • Working knowledge of Linux environments
  • Experience with version control systems (Git)

BFSI Domain Experience (Mandatory)

  • Proven experience working in Banking, Financial Services, or Insurance
  • Understanding of:
    • Transaction processing systems
    • Data privacy and regulatory compliance
    • Security standards (encryption, access control, auditing)
  • Experience working on high-availability, mission-critical systems

Soft Skills

  • Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
  • Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams
  • Ownership mindset and attention to detail

Good to Have

  • Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka / MQ)
  • Exposure to data warehousing or analytics platforms
  • Experience with Agile / Scrum environments
  • Knowledge of financial reporting or risk systems

Ideal Candidate Profile

  • 6–10 years of backend development experience
  • Strong Java 17+ expertise with enterprise application exposure
  • Hands-on Snowflake integration experience
  • Solid BFSI domain background
  • Willingness to work 3 days from Gurugram office
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