Erlang Experts in Germany
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Germany, who have recently used Erlang
Ola V.
Last position:
IT Lecturer
- IT training in theory and practice for IT specialists in application development and system integration
Martin W.
Last position:
Security Auditor at MissionMe
- Environment: AWS, Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, React Native
- Penetration test for Backend, Android-App and iOS-App
Wolfgang O.
Last position:
Fullstack Software Developer at Gematik
Development of the frontend of DEMIS (German Electronic Reporting and Information System for Infection Protection)
Technologies: Angular, Typescript, Single-SPA MicroFrontend, Java, Docker, Kubernetes, Postgres, REST
Prototype development of a compiler from HL7 FHIR to AngularFormly
Arne H.
Last position:
Embedded Fullstack Developer at IoT / Infrastructure Automation Sector
- Analysis of legacy codebase and identification of architectural issues, implementing improvements in coordination with the Product Owner.
- Development of clean, efficient, and fully documented code following established software engineering practices and standards.
- Analysis of Erlang components in backend and device layers to provide recommendations for ensuring stable system operation.
- Setup and optimization of CI/CD pipelines on client infrastructure, including testing, debugging, and certificate management quality assurance.
- Participation in planning, design, and implementation of epics and stories according to Product Owner specifications.
- Technical consultation for Product Owner regarding Erlang codebase management and best practices.
- Collaboration with Product Owner, Scrum Master, and development team to ensure timely delivery of features.
- Elixir & Phoenix + PostgreSQL
- Erlang
- IoT
- CI/CD
- Git
- Agile/Scrum
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Frontend (VueJS)
- Embedded Devices
Jan W.
Last position:
Technical Consultant at AI Beratung (KMU)
- Evaluation of RAG for legal advisory (build or buy)
- Evaluation and POC of RAG for an ERP time tracking module
- Consulting on foundation model selection
- Setup AI development environment (eliminating shadow AI)
- AI strategy consulting
- AI-assisted code creation and context engineering make change sets larger
- Strong software engineering expertise, code reviews and safeguarding through pipelines and domain-specific automated test cases
Sean S.
Last position:
Independent Business / Freelancing
- Development of various commercial software projects (mostly in the context of AI)
Doğan Can U.
Last position:
E-Commerce Developer at The Quality Group
Backend development for shops related to the “ESN” and “More Nutrition” shops
Technologies included: PHP, Symfony 6, Bref, AWS (SQS, Lambda), Terraform, Akeneo API
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Statistics of experts using Erlang
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
18 years
Position duration
1.8 years
Positions per freelancer
21
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Top industries
Information Technology, Retail, Banking and Finance
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance
Bachelor's degree or higher
100%
Master's degree or higher
60%
Certifications per freelancer
3
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 29 Oct 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology in Germany are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows the share of experts charging within that range.
Average rates of experts in Germany using Erlang
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 29 Oct 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Erlang experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Information Technology (100%)
- Retail (100%)
- Banking and Finance (71%)
- Education (57%)
- Insurance (57%)
- Media and Entertainment (57%)
- Government and Administration (57%)
- Automotive (43%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Erlang in practice
Erlang is a functional programming language and runtime built for concurrent, distributed and fault-tolerant systems. Its lightweight processes, message passing and supervision model support services that must stay responsive while handling failures. Erlang runs on the BEAM virtual machine and is widely associated with telecom, messaging, networking and always-on backends.
OTP foundation
Open Telecom Platform, usually called OTP, supplies the behaviours and tools that make Erlang systems structured and maintainable. GenServer-style processes, supervisors, applications and release handling help teams isolate failures and operate services safely. Strong specialists understand both the language and the design discipline OTP imposes.
Typical systems
- Real-time messaging, presence and notification services
- Telecom switching, signalling and network control software
- Distributed databases, queues and event-driven backends
- High-availability APIs and coordination services
- Monitoring, automation and infrastructure control tools
Erlang is a practical choice when concurrency, uptime and predictable recovery matter more than conventional object-oriented structure. Teams in Germany use it across communications, logistics, finance and industrial software where services must keep working under load and partial failure.
Ecosystem and tooling
The ecosystem includes OTP, Mix-compatible workflows through Elixir projects, rebar3 for builds, Hex packages, Dialyzer for type analysis and ExUnit when Erlang services interact with Elixir code. Specialists may also work with Cowboy, RabbitMQ, Mnesia, distributed tracing, container orchestration and CI pipelines. Production work often involves release upgrades, observability and BEAM tuning.
When to hire
- A legacy Erlang service needs safe modernization or an OTP upgrade
- A distributed product requires supervision, clustering or recovery design
- Production incidents expose mailbox, scheduling or memory problems
- A team needs interoperability between Erlang and Elixir components
- Internal specialists need support with testing, releases or operations
Freelance expertise is useful when the required knowledge is deep but the workload is focused. Remote collaboration works well for code review, incident analysis and architecture sessions; on-site work can help during complex migrations or operational handovers in Germany.
Quality signals
Strong professionals explain process boundaries, failure modes and recovery paths before changing code. They test supervision trees, reason about message ordering and use observability data instead of guesswork. Look for experience with safe deployments, backwards-compatible upgrades, property-based testing and clear documentation of distributed behaviour.
Frequently asked questions
Everything clients usually want to know about Erlang, in one place.
Erlang is used for concurrent, distributed systems that need high availability and graceful recovery. Common examples include telecom services, messaging, network infrastructure, real-time coordination and backend services with many simultaneous connections.
Erlang and Elixir share the BEAM runtime and OTP principles, but Elixir offers a different syntax and a broader modern web ecosystem. Java has a larger general-purpose ecosystem, while Erlang often provides a more direct model for lightweight processes, message passing and supervision.
Erlang work often benefits from knowledge of OTP, rebar3, Dialyzer, distributed tracing and Linux operations. Depending on the system, useful adjacent skills include Elixir, RabbitMQ, databases, container orchestration, networking and continuous delivery.
Erlang projects need a level of expertise that matches their risk and operational complexity, not simply the size of the codebase. A small isolated service may need focused implementation support, while a clustered production system benefits from someone who has handled supervision, releases, upgrades and live incidents.
Erlang specialists can collaborate remotely through code reviews, design sessions, incident channels and documented release procedures. For teams in Germany, agree early on working language, meeting overlap, access controls and whether occasional on-site workshops are needed.
Erlang is a strong fit when continuous availability, concurrency and isolated failure recovery are central requirements. It may be less suitable when a project depends heavily on a mainstream library ecosystem, rapid hiring from a broad talent pool or conventional data-processing workflows.
Erlang quality is visible in how a specialist models processes, supervision trees, message flows and failure recovery. Ask for a clear explanation of testing strategy, observability, deployment safety and the trade-offs behind a production design.
Erlang professionals commonly work across language code, OTP behaviours, release tooling and production operations rather than isolated features. They should be comfortable reading existing supervision trees, diagnosing BEAM runtime behaviour and explaining technical decisions to teams that may also use Elixir or other languages.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used Erlang in their recent projects is 104 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 829 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used Erlang in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 60% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used Erlang in their recent projects have 18 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.8 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used Erlang in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (29%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used Erlang in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Retail (100%), and Banking and Finance (71%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used Erlang in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (100%), and Project Management (57%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Erlang
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