We are currently looking for an experienced Erlang engineer as well as software developer who are ready to re-educate to Erlang from other programming language.

This position requires relocation to Belgrade (Serbia). The relocation assistance will be provided.

Orion Innovation executes software development projects for major worldwide 2/3/4/5G telecom equipment vendor from Northern Europe. Our cooperation with the customer lasts for 16 years and grows over time. We mainly work with C for Linux system programming, Erlang for high availability and distributed computing, Kubernetes for cloud orchestration. We learn as we go, meet new challenges as a source of new knowledge; we help talents who join our teams to succeed and grow together.

We are a team of 100+ professionals in telecom, OS, networking and infrastructure. We work in cross functional teams according to well-defined processes based on SCRUM, delivering top quality software to our customer. Our teams originate from Russia, but we are growing in Serbia now.

Software that we produce let billions of people across the globe stay connected to Internet on mobile devices. Products you will be working on include 2/3/4/5G mobile network core node responsible for data traffic of mobile users, mobile network simulator and traffic generator, which is rapidly enhanced to meet new 5G requirements.

We onboard and mentor our newcomers in all technology stacks we use:

• Erlang programming (yes, we will teach Erlang from scratch!);
• Linux system programming;
• Docker/Kubernetes microservices implementation;
• Manual testing;
• Automatic testing using Java based framework;

Erlang language was specifically designed to make programming of high load application with parallel handling of tons of concurrent requests hassle-free. Its usage is not limited to telecom, as it is known to be used by giants like Amazon and Meta within their backend infrastructure.

We offer opportunity to learn Erlang with friendly mentorship by our Erlang professionals. We already educated hundreds of specialists in this stack within past years. Those who already witnessed the power of functional programming are more than welcome to join our teams, of course!

Responsibilities:

• participate in development of new functionality and resolution of reported issues within existing code base (work on Erlang functional programming language);
• work in a well-defined process framework based on SCRUM;
• influence team’s and organization’s ways of working to improve the outcome and reach common goals.

Requirements:

• 2+ years of programming experience on any language (C / C++ / C# / Java / JavaScript etc.);
• general knowledge of TCP/IP protocol stack;
• be familiar with Git or another VCS;
• English to support written and verbal communication on (mostly) technical topics with international colleagues;
• be ready to learn Erlang.