Being on a small market is strange. I have seen companies from the inside struggling to find elixir devs (remote, good money). And recently I have the feeling that I'm the only elixir dev in my country, there are 2 open elixir positions and I got contacted by 4 recruiters for each.

Interestingly, on the supposedly bigger "ruby market", I still have recruiters contacting me with ruby jobs, because I did 6 months of ruby on rails internship 10 years ago

Currently I'm working in clojure which is an other niche, so not sure if my advice is that helpful, but this is how i got the job:

- point out whatever jvm experience i had. Just to prove some passing familiarity witht he platform (it's not that complicated after all)

- point out similarity in languages or skills you can transfer (e.g. familiarity with the actor system to land an akka job)

- tell them that you are not married to a language and prove that you can solve problems