Hire PostgreSQL developers · Dedicated, monthly
Hire PostgreSQL developers who start in 5 to 10 days.
Backend engineers who treat the database as part of the product: schemas that model the business, queries that stay fast at ten times today's data, and access rules enforced where the data lives. Vetted in five steps, working in your tools and time zone, with a two-week replacement guarantee.
1 senior PostgreSQL developer · 160 hours a month
from $4,400/month
All-inclusive, no recruitment fee, two-week replacement guarantee.
Monthly rates
| Level | Experience | Monthly |
|---|---|---|
| Mid-level | 3 to 5 years | $3,400 to $4,400 |
| Senior | 5 to 8 years | $4,400 to $6,200 |
| Lead | 8+ years | $6,200 to $7,800 |
Full-time, 160 hours a month, equipment and HR included. Hourly equivalents $21 to $49. No recruitment fee.
What our PostgreSQL developers bring.
- PostgreSQL 15 to 17
- Schema design and normalisation
- Query plans, indexes, EXPLAIN ANALYZE
- Row level security
- Zero-downtime migrations
- Prisma, Drizzle, TypeORM, SQLAlchemy
- pgvector and full-text search
- Partitioning and connection pooling (PgBouncer)
- Amazon RDS and Aurora, Neon, Supabase
- Backups, replicas and point-in-time recovery
When teams hire this role from us.
- Fix a product that slows down as data grows: find the slow queries, add the right indexes and stop the N+1 patterns in the ORM
- Move a multi-tenant SaaS to row level security so one forgotten WHERE clause cannot leak another customer's data
- Add semantic search or RAG on pgvector inside the database you already run instead of a separate vector store
From brief to first commit.
- 01
Brief
Tell us the stack, seniority and start date. 15 minutes on a call or a short form.
- 02
Shortlist in 48 hours
Two or three profiles with CVs, code samples and interview notes.
- 03
Interview
You interview them your way. Technical test optional; we already ran ours.
- 04
Start in 5 to 10 days
Access, onboarding and first stand-up in your hours. Two-week replacement guarantee.
Five steps before you see a profile.
Two-week free replacement if an engineer is not the right fit, and a 30-day notice to scale down.
- 01CV and portfolio screen against the role brief
- 02Technical interview with a senior engineer in the same stack
- 03Live coding or take-home exercise reviewed for quality, not speed
- 04English communication and async-writing check
- 05Reference check and background verification before onboarding
What a PostgreSQL developer does on our teams
A PostgreSQL developer on our team owns the data layer of a product: the schema and its migrations, the queries the ORM generates, the indexes behind them and the access rules that decide which rows each user can see. They read query plans before they add hardware, and they ship every schema change in steps that keep the old and new code working, so a deploy never needs a maintenance window. On an AI body-camera operations platform the team modelled 50 Prisma models on PostgreSQL with ZenStack access policies, so users, devices and audit logs are scoped to a tenant, client or site by rules declared next to the models they protect. On TamTracker, a B2B market intelligence SaaS, the data sits in PostgreSQL behind Drizzle ORM and feeds an event-driven sync from nine partner APIs. Score Hub runs on Neon serverless PostgreSQL with pooling, and Chat Your History also uses Neon.
How we assess PostgreSQL developers
- Schema design: model a realistic feature such as team billing with usage limits, with constraints that make bad data impossible rather than merely unlikely
- Query tuning: read an EXPLAIN ANALYZE plan, find why a dashboard query is slow and fix it with an index, a rewrite or a materialised view
- Isolation and security: write row level security policies for a multi-tenant table and prove with a test that one tenant cannot read another's rows
- Operations: zero-downtime migrations on a large table, connection pooling, backups and point-in-time recovery, and the runbook for a full disk at 2 a.m.
- Sample task: given a slow schema and a seeded dataset, bring three queries under 50 ms and write the migration in four hours
| Comparison | Innovation Insight | Freelance marketplace | US in-house hire |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost (senior) | $4,400 to $6,200, all-inclusive | $8,000 to $14,000 plus platform fees | About $16,200 with benefits (BLS median salary) |
| Time to start | 5 to 10 business days | 1 to 3 weeks | 6 to 12 weeks |
| Replacement | Free within two weeks, 30-day notice after | Trial period, then re-match | Notice period and a new recruitment cycle |
| Who manages | You, with our delivery lead on call | You | You |
Rates on this page were reviewed in October 2026. For background on the features our engineers work with most, see the PostgreSQL documentation on row security policies and using EXPLAIN, the pgvector extension for vector search, and Amazon's guide to Aurora PostgreSQL.
Designing who can see what? Read RBAC and audit logging for B2B SaaS. Running on MongoDB instead? See MongoDB developers. Planning a multi-tenant product? Our multi-tenant SaaS architecture guide compares shared schema with row level security against a database per tenant, and the Supabase vs Firebase post covers hosted PostgreSQL. For a whole product team, see multi-tenant SaaS development.
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SolasEnterprise · OperationsHiring PostgreSQL developers, answered.
Is a PostgreSQL developer a DBA?
No. They are backend engineers who specialise in the database: they design schemas, write and tune queries, and ship migrations with the application code. Managed services such as RDS, Aurora, Neon or Supabase handle most of the patching and backups a DBA used to do; our engineers configure and test them.
Can they work with Supabase?
Yes. Supabase is PostgreSQL underneath, so the same skills apply: row level security policies, SQL migrations, database functions and indexes. We also compare the two hosted options in our Supabase vs Firebase guide.
Can you migrate us from MySQL or MongoDB to PostgreSQL?
Yes. We map the schema, run both databases side by side with a backfill and a change-data sync, compare results, then switch reads and writes in stages so there is no big-bang cutover.
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