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Dedicated PostgreSQL engineers

Hire PostgreSQL developers who treat the schema as the product.

Need a Postgres engineer for constraints, indexes, and queries that should not take a coffee break? DayDecoder hires people who design the data model with the application, not after it. Overlap hours for the US, UK, Europe and Australia. You own the migrations.

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What our PostgreSQL developers actually do.

This is application-adjacent Postgres: the person who writes the migration also understands the Laravel or Python code that will hit it. It is not a night-shift DBA who never saw the domain.

PostgreSQL shows up across the public portfolio: diagnostic lab reporting, wallet-style ledgers, luxury real estate (with Next.js), AI support tools, trading backtests, IoT boards, and more. Those products need different shapes — JSONB here, strict numeric ledgers there, PostGIS-like thinking only if the domain is spatial (we will not enable every extension “because Postgres can”).

A hire on this page should be able to read EXPLAIN, add a constraint without locking the table into next week, and say no to a UUID primary key fashion when a bigserial is the honest choice. Redis remains a cache, not a hiding place for queries we refuse to fix. Our Redis article is about Laravel at scale; the same discipline applies when Postgres is the source of truth.

  • Schema and integrity

    Normalisation where it pays, denormalisation where you measured it. Foreign keys, checks, and exclusion constraints so the app cannot save nonsense.

  • Query and index work

    The slow endpoint, the report, the “it was fine until month six” list page. Indexes that match the WHERE and ORDER BY you actually run.

  • Migrations you can replay

    Expand/contract, backfills, and a plan for locks. Friday-night rewrite of production in a GUI is not a process.

  • Ops beside the cloud hire

    PITR, connection pooling, autovacuum that is not folklore. RDS, Cloud SQL or a box you already run — we will not move you for sport.

Skills and tool stack

PostgreSQL skills we staff.

SQL first. Extensions second. ORMs are clients of the database, not a substitute for it.

We work in PostgreSQL 14+ as we find it, with Eloquent, SQLAlchemy or Prisma talking to it. pg_stat_statements, EXPLAIN ANALYZE, and a staging copy of production shape (anonymised) beat guessing. Logical replication, partitioning, and Citus-class tools only when the data size has earned them.

Design

  • normalised models
  • constraints
  • JSONB when it is document-shaped
  • full text when search is a product

Performance

  • indexes
  • EXPLAIN
  • pooling (PgBouncer)
  • autovacuum

App side

  • Laravel migrations
  • Python SQLAlchemy
  • Prisma on Next.js sites

Hosting

  • RDS
  • Cloud SQL
  • self-managed Postgres you already have

Engagement models

Dedicated Postgres capacity, part-time DBA-shaped help, or hourly query rescue.

A growing SaaS usually wants a recurring owner for the data model. A single slow query can be hourly.

Dedicated full-time PostgreSQL developer

Owns migrations, performance, and the backup story. Best when the database is a product risk, not a default install.

Part-time dedicated

A few days a week beside Laravel or Python developers. Typical for index work, a module’s schema, and a monthly EXPLAIN clinic.

Hourly PostgreSQL help

A lock, a bloated table, a migration that cannot run. Time-logged. A “quick look” that is a version upgrade will be scoped as one.

Hiring process

How a PostgreSQL hire starts.

We need a staging copy and the queries that hurt. We do not need production superuser on day one.

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    See the slow things

    Thirty minutes with the founder: engine version, size, and the pages or jobs that time out.

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    Written data proposal

    Dedicated, part-time or hourly, plus whether the first month is schema, performance, or backups.

  3. 3

    Anonymised staging

    A copy we can EXPLAIN against. Production credentials stay tight until the work requires them.

  4. 4

    First measured change

    An index or a rewritten query with before/after. No mystery “tuning” without numbers.

  5. 5

    Weekly data review

    What we changed, what we will not change yet, and the migration calendar — in your overlap hours.

PostgreSQL work across US, UK, EU and Australian hours.

DDL that locks a hot table belongs in a window you choose, usually off-peak for your users. We schedule those windows in overlap so someone on your side can say stop. Index builds and ANALYZE can run in India hours when they do not block writes.

If your buyers are in one region, that region’s evening is the constraint. We will not run a rewrite of a US-facing ledger at 09:00 in New York because it is convenient in Ahmedabad.

  • United States

    Morning updates waiting in your inbox when the US workday starts.

  • United Kingdom

    Same-day overlap for calls, reviews, and decisions.

  • Europe

    Afternoon overlap with Central and Eastern European teams.

  • Australia

    Early-morning calls that fit the Australian workday.

Why DayDecoder for a PostgreSQL hire.

The database person already works with the Laravel, Python and Next.js people. Schema arguments happen in one company, not in a vendor triangle.

  • Schema owned with the app

    Migrations live in the product repo. We do not hand you a SQL file and vanish.

  • Portfolio that actually uses Postgres

    Ledgers, lab reporting, AI tools, trading reports, IoT. Different shapes, same refusal to treat the database as a dump.

  • Measured performance

    Before/after on the query that hurt. We will not sell a hardware upgrade as the first move if an index would do.

  • You own the data

    Dumps, replicas and migrations are yours. We do not hold the only backup. NDA on request before we see production-shaped data.

Relevant work

PostgreSQL in the public portfolio.

Projects that list PostgreSQL in their stack. We keep client product names confidential.

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Questions about hiring PostgreSQL developers.

Straight answers on the stack, ownership and time zones. Email us if yours is missing.

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Application-adjacent. They design schema, write migrations, and fix queries in the products we build. If you need 24/7 enterprise DBA coverage for a fleet of clusters, say so — that may be a different staffing conversation.

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