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Building Multiply: The Three Words on Our Job Ads

Founder & CTO Oskar Boëthius Lissheim on why Multiply's job ads lead with Clojure, Rama, and Electric, and why betting on an unusual stack is a feature, not a risk.

Building Multiply: The Three Words on Our Job Ads

Our engineering job ads list three words that stop most candidates cold: Clojure, Rama, Electric. In the latest instalment of his "Building Multiply" series, founder & CTO Oskar Boëthius Lissheim explains why.

The recalculation

Oskar's watched it happen in real time: strong engineers read the stack and visibly recalculate. Am I betting my career on tools with no Stack Overflow safety net? It's a fair fear, less sharp now that LLMs exist, but still real.

Betting on tools almost nobody picks

His answer covers why Multiply builds an enterprise AI product on a stack almost nobody chooses, and where that bet genuinely has edges. Read the full post on LinkedIn.

This is part of our ongoing "Building Multiply" series on how we build the company.

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