Top 10 highest paying companies that use Elixir

Competitive salary in the range of 150-400k

Sleek is a browser extension that does 1-click checkout from every store on the internet by driving your web browser just like a human would — clicking buttons and typing your info on fields on websites. We're a YC company and pride ourselves on writing really great code. We're looking for: - Senior engineer style folks (4+ years experience) that enjoy being generalists. People that are excited by massaging tons of data to power an engine that can checkout at every store on the internet. People that understand how modern web applications work and how internet browsers operate. We offer: A passionate, hardworking, and talented team to be a part of. Competitive salary in the range of 150-400k. The other usual things you'd expect from a company. Tech Stack: Elixir, Typescript, Python, React, Browser Extension APIs - all wrapped up in AWS and Fly.io We're about to get into hiring Senior Engineers and our funnel will be opening this week. Consider an email to me as a head start :) Please email me if you're interested in learning more: palmer[typical email symbol]onsleek.com

$180-$260k

We’re jumpapp.com! AI For Financial Advisors. Small, face-paced, strong PMF, growing fast. If you know Elixir (or would be excited to learn it!) and the following sounds fun to you, please come help us build an awesome product & company! Fully remote OK. We’d like it if you’d fly in occasionally to get to know you.

$150K-$250K + equity (overall). Staff Software Engineer: $200K-$250K. Senior Software Engineer: $150K-$220K. Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer: $200K-$250K.

River is a client-first Bitcoin-only financial institution building the financial app people use every day to save in bitcoin and spend in dollars. They custody over 25,000 BTC, serve individuals and businesses across the U.S., and are profitable. They publish cryptographic proof of reserves monthly and release company financials annually. The engineering team works on: real-time Bitcoin and USD payments/trading/settlement on an Elixir monolith with unified GraphQL API; next-generation Bitcoin custody with quorum signing, key ceremonies, and geo-redundant infrastructure; scaling ML/AI systems (Python, PyTorch, XGBoost, LLMs) to automate operations and tackle fraud/risk; ground-up React and React Native rewrite of the consumer app; porting Lightning Network infrastructure from Go into Elixir. Hiring: Staff Software Engineer (Elixir); Senior Software Engineer (React, Full-stack); Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer.

$130k - $200k

We're building a new ad agency reporting platform and we need someone to lead development of this project. You will make pivotal decisions about backend systems, such as authentication, search relevance, personalization, and API design.

$120k–$190k base + meaningful equity.

Youth Inc. is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Hybrid: Boston/Chicago). We’re a venture-backed e-commerce marketplace and media network for youth and high school sports. We’ve moved from zero to one with real revenue and are now looking for a Senior Engineer to help us scale. Our Stack: Elixir/Phoenix (LiveView), PostgreSQL, Oban, Next.js, Meilisearch, Vercel and Claude Code. What you’ll do: - Lead product/engineering initiatives and own outcomes end-to-end. - Design for scale: handle high transaction volumes and tune relational databases for millions of rows. - Make pragmatic tradeoffs between shipping speed and long-term system health. - Work in a high-trust, AI-assisted environment where you drive the vision. What we’re looking for: - 7+ years of experience building/maintaining high-traffic, full-stack systems. - Expertise in Elixir or an equivalent functional/concurrent stack. - Strong foundation in observability, cloud infrastructure (AWS), and incident response. - Clear communication—you can turn complex technical ideas into diagrams and strategy. Compensation: $120k–$190k base + meaningful equity. Interested? Send your resume and a link to your GitHub or a project you’re proud of to kfaham@youth.inc with "Senior Software Engineer — [Your Name]" in the subject line.

$100k - $182.5k Base

We’re taking on bigger and more ambitious projects this year and our team is looking for a highly motivated self-starter to help us achieve an ambitious set of goals. This is a cross functional role where you will work with business stakeholders, coach junior developers, take on difficult technical tasks, and collaborate with product and design.

Salary: $100-$180k/yr + benefits for Full-Time. Contractors also considered (usually required if non-US-based).

TalentWall makes recruiting-management software for the fastest-growing companies, including many well known brands. We are a small company (only 4 FT devs right now), but growing quickly. All the current developers are very senior Ex-ThoughtWorks folks who care about code and process quality. We have a genuinely pleasant dev culture, and very open to input. Our interview process is straightforward (no tricks). We're having a great time with LiveView + TailWind (PETAL stack). It feels like the future. If you don't have production Elixir experience, that's ok! As long as you have solid fundamentals are are as excited about it as we are. Apply here, hope to see you!

Salary Range: $100-175k annually depending on experience and location.

Pebble provides a platform for land investors to systemize and scale their businesses. We're a bootstrapped SAAS company founded in 2020. We're profitable and our customers rave about us. Our team is fully remote with people from Korea to Morocco. Each team member is critical to our success and makes a direct impact on the business. You'll be leading our fully-remote dev team building our core product. You'll be responsible for overseeing the development, implementation, and maintenance of our platform and fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.

$150k – $175K (Salary + Equity). Competitive early-stage startup salary + equity package; Health Insurance; 401k. Not eligible for visa sponsorship.

AI-first logistics technology startup. Role requires experience with Elixir or Erlang in production (or a polyglot engineer able to pick up new languages quickly), solid understanding of Postgres (beyond basic CRUD), and hands-on distributed systems experience. Responsibilities include designing, building, and operating production Elixir/Erlang services; DB schema design, query optimization, and scaling strategies; collaborating on architecture decisions; shipping incrementally and learning from production; debugging across the stack; and improving tooling and processes. Remote-first (US only). Compensation and benefits: $150k–$175k salary + equity, health insurance, 401k. Not eligible for visa sponsorship. Apply by sending a resume to hiring@freightroll.com with "Software Engineer" in the subject and mention HN Who is hiring Feb 2026.

$150–175k for engineering roles; $120–150k for Product Manager. Equity, full benefits, 401k match, annual retreat.

We’re the AI platform for veterinary medicine—cloud-native EMR, AI scribing (ScribbleVet, acquired early 2026), clinical decision support, and Plumb’s drug reference. Instinct is the operating system vet teams use for charting through clinical decisions to pharmacy. The roles include Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Elixir/Ash, Postgres, TypeScript, React, AWS), Senior Software Engineer for React Native (ScribbleVet mobile app; Expo + GraphQL; audio capture, offline, AI-assisted workflows), and Product Manager (translate vet workflows into roadmap; requires 3+ years PM experience in early-stage SaaS). Fully remote (US) but not async. Offers equity, full benefits, 401k match, and annual retreat.