Hire a senior Postgres developer who writes real SQL
Postgres as a first-class citizen: CTEs, partial indexes, partitioning, JSONB. Laravel plus Postgres or Node plus Postgres. Fixed monthly price.
Who this is for
Founder whose app is Postgres-first and needs a senior who treats the DB as a first-class citizen.
The pain today
- Most backend devs treat Postgres as 'Mongo but SQL'.
- The app is missing CTEs, partial indexes, proper constraints.
- JSONB is used as a dumping ground, not a feature.
- Migrations are a dangerous Monday-morning ritual.
The outcome you get
- A senior Postgres plus Laravel or Node engineer.
- SQL that uses Postgres features, not just the common subset.
- Migrations that are safe, reversible, and part of CI.
- Indexes that justify themselves in EXPLAIN ANALYZE.
What a senior Postgres developer actually does
A senior Postgres developer does more than write SELECT statements. The day-to-day work includes: designing the schema up front (not discovering it migration by migration), using Postgres features intentionally (CTEs for complex reads, JSONB for sparse structured data, partial indexes for hot subsets, partitioning for time-series or multi-tenant), writing queries that show up healthy in EXPLAIN ANALYZE (no sequential scans on 10M-row tables, no nested loops where hash joins belong), and owning the migration pipeline so production changes are reversible and tested. Most backend engineers can read Postgres. Few can design for it.
GigEasy — Postgres in a 3-week fintech MVP
GigEasy shipped on Laravel plus PostgreSQL plus Redis plus Docker plus Pulumi in 3 weeks. The Postgres decisions that made that possible: JSONB for the onboarding payload (flexible schema, indexed on the 3 hot fields, full-text search on the notes), partial indexes on user-state (80% of queries hit active users only — partial indexes cut index size 70%), normalized core with denormalized read-only projections for the dashboard. Same engineer owning Laravel plus Postgres means the schema and the code match — no week-3 discovery of an impossible migration.
Laravel plus Postgres or Node plus Postgres
Both stacks get the same Postgres discipline. Laravel: Eloquent with eager loading, Blueprint migrations with explicit down() methods, factory and seeder discipline, Laravel Telescope for slow queries. Node: Prisma as the default ORM (with raw SQL via $queryRaw for the tight loops), prisma migrate with shadow database for safe migrations, Pino for query logs. Either stack, the baseline is the same: pg_stat_statements enabled, top-20 queries reviewed weekly, slow-query alerting wired into Sentry.
Pricing and engagement
$3,499 per month flat for Applications. 2 to 4 day delivery cycles, daily async updates, 14-day money-back, cancel anytime. Postgres expertise is part of every engagement — not a separate line item.
Recent proof
A comparable engagement, delivered and documented.
Built and shipped an investor-ready MVP from scratch
Built the entire technological base and delivered MVP in just 3 weeks, enabling a successful rapid launch and investor demo.
Frequently asked questions
The questions prospects ask before they book.
- Postgres with Prisma, Drizzle, or raw SQL?
- Prisma for most Node apps. Drizzle when closer-to-SQL control matters. Raw SQL via Prisma's $queryRaw for the performance-critical 10% of queries. Laravel uses Eloquent with raw DB::select where it matters.
- JSONB or separate tables?
- Separate tables when the data has a defined schema and relationships. JSONB when the data is sparse, truly flexible, or a pass-through payload. Mixed in one database is normal.
- Sharding?
- Rarely. Most Postgres apps scale vertically plus read replicas plus partitioning long before sharding. If sharding is the right answer, the audit says so and scopes Citus or manual sharding explicitly.
- Postgres on Supabase?
- Yes. Supabase is a solid managed Postgres with auth plus storage plus edge functions on top. Well-suited for MVPs and mid-size products — the audit covers RLS, edge functions, and the Supabase-specific patterns.
- Can you upgrade from MySQL to Postgres?
- Yes. pgloader for the data migration, schema review, Prisma schema translation, and application-side dialect changes. Typical MySQL-to-Postgres migration is 3 to 6 weeks for a mid-size app.
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