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Current stack: 1YOE, React/Redux, TS/JS, Serverless, AWS/Lambda,Mongo. ~5k active users, ~10 engineers. ~10LPA, service/india based consultancy, us market.

Have an offer for ~100% hike, but role is mostly Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView + some Gatsby/Python/ML. Much smaller shop, ~2–4 engineers, smaller scale, public-good work. India.

I want to become a stronger engineer and eventually be competitive for stable, reliable corporate engineering roles later.

Would leaving the React/Serverless ecosystem for Elixir hurt my future employability? Or is learning a very different stack, BE/concurrency/distributed-systems thinking etc actually valuable?

Would you take this move? What would concern you?

Currently full-stack JS/TS: Redux/React, Node/Express, AWS/Lambda, Postgres/Mongo, ~5k active users, team of ~10. 1 yoe. US Client through small consultancy shop.

Potential offer is ~100% hike, mostly Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView, some Gatsby + Python/ML. Much smaller team. Maybe few hundred users, 2–4 engineers. Civic tech/public-good org tackling online abuse in India.

Want to become a genuinely better, more reliable engineer and eventually target stable/strong engineering jobs.

Is moving to Elixir/Phoenix a good move for that? What would I gain/lose technically and career-wise? Does working in a tiny Elixir team make me stronger, or am I narrowing my future options too much?

Especially interested in people who switched into Elixir from mainstream JS stacks.