So I am looking for a general feel of what types of jobs are out their for elixir/phoenix developers, and specifically the freelancer/contract market for remote development.
I got into scala a few years back and worked in the market for while, but most of the jobs required onsite work. Beyond that I noticed that many of the companies that adopted scala were larger shops, and they seemed to be mostly in the banking/financial sector… I don’t get too excited about working for a bank.
So having said that, what is it like being elixir/phoenix dev? Are there remote contract work opportunities out there? What sort of industries seem to be more prevalent?
As a general observation, it seems to me that companies have become more open to remote work over the past few years, across many industries and languages.
One thing I have noticed is that more and more companies which were using Ruby are becoming interested in Elixir, I guess partly because so many in the community are coming from or have come from Ruby - which is great, because Ruby has traditionally been very popular in the web space
I’ve been freelancing for about 20 years. Lots of Flask and Rails work in recent years, but one trend I see is that nearly every single team I work with that’s using Rails has Elixir and Phoenix either on their radar, or they’re already dabbling with it.
