As an education business aiming to provide an alternative to university through professional apprenticeships, Multiverse has been running on Elixir since 2016. The past two years have seen our engineering team grow 6X from 10 to 60 engineers, and counting!
That kind of growth is demanding at the best of times, but adding the factor of building our apps with Elixir presented a special challenge for us as engineering managers looking to sustainably grow an effective, happy team around a niche programming language.
In this talk, Jack Rhodes, an Engineering Manager at Multiverse gives insights into the challenges they faced in growing their team, how they sought to overcome them, and the lessons they’ve learnt along the way.
Talk objectives:
- The talk aims to cover our experience of scaling an engineering organisation around Elixir; hiring, training, decision making, and planning for the future.
- We hope that by sharing our experience, we can help others make informed decisions about using Elixir and provide some valuable insights into building an engineering team with this powerful and efficient language.
Target audience:
- This talk is aimed at anyone interested in the realities of hyper growth, the tradeoffs you make choosing a language with a small (but awesome) community, and what we learned on our journey.