Founder of a team of five here. For a sample size of one, we have a Rails based backend and it’s on our roadmap to migrate parts to Elixir. We have a video bas

Founder of a team of five here. For a sample size of one, we have a Rails based backend and it’s on our roadmap to migrate parts to Elixir. We have a video based tool and the low compute plus multithreaded aspects of Elixir make it ideal for web based FFMPEG processes. We are three engineers, all of whom are senior/principal level SWE. If we were hiring someone next, we’d likely optimize for their frontend skills, given the app is the complicated part, and the API is trivial. That being said, we would expect them to have some advanced experience with a backend language, and to be able to pickup new things quickly. I can confidently say we wouldn’t hire someone who has only done a few projects in a programming language, and hadn’t worked in a production environment. On the other hand, we would definitely hire someone without relevant experience in our entire stack, if we knew they have proven deep expertise in their own stack and the ability to learn/move quickly.