Remote: growing from zero to unicorn with Elixir

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Welcome to our series of case studies about companies using Elixir in production.

Remote is the everywhere employment platform enabling companies to find, hire, manage, and pay people anywhere across the world.

Founded in 2019, they reached unicorn status in just over two years and have continued their rapid growth trajectory since.

Since day zero, Elixir has been their primary technology. Currently, their engineering organization as a whole consists of nearly 300 individuals.

This case study focuses on their experience using Elixir in a high-growth environment.

Why Elixir?

Marcelo Lebre, co-founder and president of Remote, had worked with many languages and frameworks throughout his career, often encountering the same trade-off: easy-to-code versus easy-to-scale.

In 2015, while searching for...

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