[skeeter2020]

This feels good intuitively but is not born out by my experiences and observations. The notion that "high paying/good software engineer" are two aspects of the same outcome is wrong. To the OP, the answer is "pays beter with less demand and more risk". Example: we're struggling to find Elixir developers and thus paying a premium for good (not great) talent; we're also looking to switch to Node which will reduce our demand for Elixir devs.

[throwawaymaths]

Seriously, pay the premium. You'll waste the delta endlessly searching through the chaff of node developers, and then pay another cost when your node architecture needs to be de-spaghettified or your node developer decides to create another layer of tech debt by switch to using next.js from redux, or starting to use aws lambdas, etc. Etc etc.

[71a54xd]

I'm currently looking for an elixir contract gig! Feel free to email at [e-mail] :)