Remote: growing from zero to unicorn with Elixir

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

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

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 alternatives, he discovered Elixir. Intrigued, Marcelo decided to give it a try and immediately saw its potential. At the time, Elixir was still in its early days, but he noticed how fast the community was growing, with support for packages and frameworks starting to show up aggressively.

In December 2018, when Marcelo and his co-founder decided to start the company, they had to make a decision about the technology that would support their vision. Marcelo wanted to prioritize building a great product quickly without worrying about scalability issues from the start. He found Elixir to be the perfect match:

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