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Hire Elixir developers who build systems that stay up
Phoenix applications, real-time features and concurrent services on the BEAM. A dedicated Elixir developer from Latin America who works your hours, knows OTP and writes code the rest of your team can maintain.
TRUSTED BY TEAMS WHOSE CLOUDTASK HIRES HAVE STAYED 5 TO 8 YEARS
How it works
How do I hire an Elixir developer?
You do one thing: interview. We handle everything else.
Post the role
5 minutes. The role, the motion, the tools, the comp band. That is all we need to start.
Review your matches
3 to 5 matches in 48 hours.
Interview and hire
We coordinate interviews. On Managed Staffing, we also handle payroll and compliance across LATAM.
WHY TEAMS TRUST CLOUDTASK
What you get with every hire
Dedicated to your codebase
One Elixir developer who learns your code, your conventions and your roadmap. Not a freelancer who closes a ticket and moves on.
Same hours as your team
Latin America and the Caribbean overlap the US working day, so code review, standups and production issues get handled live.
Searched against your stack
Elixir version, Phoenix setup, database and the way you deploy come from your brief, and each profile is checked against them before you see it.
Replacement guarantee
24 months on Managed Staffing, 6 months on Direct Hire. If the fit is wrong, the guarantee covers the replacement search.
WHY CLOUDTASK
Staffing with numbers behind it
10,000+
hires placed
since 2016
85%
still in seat
past 90 days
24 months
replacement guarantee
on Managed Staffing
12
countries
across Latin America and the Caribbean
TECH STACK
The Elixir stack we screen for
Language and OTP
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Processes and message passing
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GenServer and supervisors
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Pattern matching
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Erlang interop
Web
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Phoenix
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Phoenix LiveView
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Channels and PubSub
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Absinthe for GraphQL
Data and jobs
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Ecto and PostgreSQL
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Oban background jobs
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Broadway pipelines
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ETS caching
Operations
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Mix releases
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Telemetry and observability
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Clustering nodes
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ExUnit and Credo
PRICING MODEL
Managed Staffing.
Managed Staffing is open to every role we place. We find the person, handle payments and compliance, and stay involved after the hire with check-ins, visibility, and escalation when something is off. You get the person. We keep the machine running. For roles that create demand, outbound SDRs, BDRs, demand generation and full-cycle AEs, Managed Staffing runs on a six-month minimum term.
Pay
One all-in monthly rate
Per person. That is the number, and there is nothing added to it.
In the monthly rate
- Sourcing from the CloudTask staffing and recruiting company
- Screening and vetting
- Matching coordination
- Worker payments
- Compliance and employment administration
- Onboarding support at day 0, 7, 30 and 60
- Ongoing check-ins with the hire and with you
- Time and activity tracking, on by default
- Performance escalation
- 24-month replacement guarantee. Replacements not capped.
- Health benefits available on request
- Equipment benefits available on request
Stays with you
- The work itself
- Priorities and direction
- Who you hire
$299 to start your search. One time, not a subscription. It applies to your buyout or toward your first placement.
Start your searchPRICING MODEL
Direct Hire.
Direct Hire is open to every role we place. We find the person, vet them, and hand them over. You employ them, you manage them, you own the relationship from day one. Roles that create demand usually land here, because live call feedback and daily coaching work best coming straight from your sales leader, and there is no minimum term.
Pay
20% to 30%
Of first-year base salary. One time, quoted per role, paid when they accept.
In the fee
- Sourcing from the CloudTask staffing and recruiting company
- Screening and vetting
- Shortlist of matched candidates
- Interview coordination
- Offer support
- 6-month replacement guarantee. One replacement, same job description.
Yours when they accept
- Employment and payroll
- Compliance and employment administration
- Ongoing management
- Time and activity tracking
- Health benefits and equipment benefits
$299 to start your search. One time, not a subscription. It applies to your buyout or toward your first placement.
Start your searchHow CloudTask compares
Run the numbers. We did.
The same role, three ways to fill it.
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| US Direct Hire | Staffing Agency | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to First Interview | 48 hours | 3 to 6 weeks | 2 to 4 weeks |
| Payroll & Compliance | Included on Managed Staffing | You manage | Included in rate |
| Vetting Process | Human + AI verified | You screen | Recruiter screened |
| Candidate spam | Screened out before you see a profile | Common | Low |
| Tool Verification | Verified per candidate | Self-reported | Rarely verified |
| Free Replacements | 24 months on Managed Staffing, 6 months on Direct Hire | None | Variable |
Testimonials
Trusted by teams that hire with us
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LATAM has been a gold mine for talent. Our CloudTask hires understand our company culture and mission, and they connect with our customers in a way that drives high NPS and CX scores.
David Barrett CEO, Expensify -
At first we were an SF-based team only. Then I met Amir Reiter back in 2018. After visiting Medellín, I knew LATAM would be key to our growth and success.
Tim Zheng CEO, Apollo.io -
After meeting my CX and CS team in Medellín, we immediately loved the culture and the work ethic. As a European-HQ company, we found LATAM to be perfect to service our American clients.
Carl Carell CRO and Co-founder, GetAccept
SKILLS
Top skills to look for in an Elixir developer
Elixir is chosen for systems that cannot go down. These are the skills that decide whether your application actually gets the reliability the platform promises.
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Supervision trees that make sense
Designs processes and supervisors so failures are isolated and recovery is automatic, instead of one process doing everything.
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Concurrency on the BEAM
Knows when to start a process, when not to, and how message queues and mailboxes behave under load.
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Phoenix and LiveView
Builds web applications and real-time interfaces with Phoenix, and knows the cost of state held on the server per user.
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Ecto used well
Changesets for validation, queries that avoid loading too much, and migrations that do not lock production tables.
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Let it crash, on purpose
Handles expected errors explicitly and lets unexpected ones crash into a supervisor, instead of catching everything.
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Observability
Uses telemetry, logs and runtime tools to see process counts, mailbox sizes and slow queries in production.
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Tests with ExUnit
Tests for business logic and processes, including concurrent behavior, run in CI on every change.
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AI as a tool, reviewed
Uses coding assistants for boilerplate and tests, and reviews every generated line before it merges.
HIRING GUIDE
How to hire Elixir developers
The systems Elixir is chosen for are usually the ones that cannot go down, which raises the cost of a hiring gap. This guide covers what an Elixir developer does, what to test, the red flags and when a dedicated Elixir developer is the wrong hire.
What does an Elixir developer do?
Builds and maintains applications in Elixir on the Erlang virtual machine, known as the BEAM: Phoenix web applications, real-time features, APIs, background processing and concurrent services.
Day to day that means writing and reviewing code, designing how processes are supervised, watching the system in production and keeping dependencies and the runtime current.
Phoenix product work or distributed systems?
Many Elixir roles are product work in Phoenix and LiveView: features, forms, real-time updates. Others are infrastructure: message processing, clustering and high-concurrency services.
Put the shape in the brief. A strong Phoenix product developer may not have run a cluster of nodes, and the reverse is also true.
OTP is the part to check
The reliability of an Elixir system comes from OTP: processes, supervisors and the way failures are contained. Knowing the syntax is not the same as knowing OTP.
Ask the candidate to sketch the supervision tree of a system they built and explain what happens when one part fails.
Performance and state
Elixir handles many concurrent connections well, but a single busy process can become a bottleneck, and LiveView keeps state on the server for every connected user.
Ask how the candidate found the last bottleneck they fixed: a slow query, a process with a growing mailbox or a hot spot in a GenServer, and how they measured it.
What to test in an Elixir developer interview
Give a small task close to your real work: a Phoenix endpoint or a GenServer that handles a request, validates input with a changeset and has a test. Read how they handle errors and state.
Then show a single GenServer that every request goes through and ask what happens under load. A strong answer identifies the bottleneck and proposes a simple fix.
Red flags in Elixir developer candidates
A process for everything. Wrapping plain functions in GenServers adds bottlenecks without adding reliability.
Catch everything. Rescuing every error defeats the supervisor model and hides failures.
No supervision story. If they cannot explain how their last system recovered from a crash, they may not have designed for it.
Ecto as a black box. Loading whole associations without thinking about the query leads to slow pages.
Generated code they cannot explain. Ask them to walk through code they wrote with an AI assistant. If they cannot say why it works, nobody has reviewed it.
When should you not hire a dedicated Elixir developer?
When the application is a standard CRUD product with little concurrency and your team already works in another language. Adding Elixir for one service creates a maintenance island.
It is also the wrong hire when nobody on your side can review code or set priorities. A single developer with no technical lead and no product owner tends to build what is interesting instead of what the business needs.
How much does it cost to hire an Elixir developer?
It depends on seniority, the scope of the work and the country the person works from, and any single number describes one scenario and calls it a price.
What is worth understanding is the shape. On Managed Staffing it is one all-in monthly rate per person, with payments, compliance and replacement cover inside it. On Direct Hire it is a one-time fee of 20% to 30% of first-year base salary and the person goes on your payroll. We quote your number before you interview anyone.
Why hire an Elixir developer in Latin America?
Overlap. Development runs on code review, standups and incidents, and Latin America and the Caribbean share most of the US working day, so those happen in real time instead of overnight.
The second reason is communication. Your developer writes pull request descriptions, technical notes and status updates in English, and we screen English live on a call.
How does CloudTask hire for this role?
You send the Elixir and Phoenix setup you run, the database, how you deploy and the kind of work and the hours you need covered. We source against that brief and come back with 3 to 5 matched profiles within 48 hours, each one screened on a live call and checked against the stack you named.
You interview and choose. On Managed Staffing we handle payments, compliance and onboarding and stay involved with check-ins. On Direct Hire the person joins your payroll from day one. Both carry a replacement guarantee: 24 months on Managed Staffing, 6 months on Direct Hire.
FAQ
The fine print, in plain terms.
What is the difference between Elixir and Erlang?
Can an Elixir developer work on Phoenix LiveView?
How fast can an Elixir developer start?
What is the $299 for?
Why is there no number on the monthly rate?
Who is the legal employer?
How does tracking work, and can I turn it off?
What happens if the person does not work out?
Is there a platform or subscription fee?
Ready to hire?
3 to 5 matches in 48 hours. Start with a quick role brief to get your shortlist.