Skills
What our PostgreSQL developers know
We put forward developers with production PostgreSQL experience, and you interview them before they join your team.
- Schema and index design
- Query tuning with EXPLAIN
- Migrations and versioning
- Views and functions for reporting
- Backups and replication basics
- pgvector and JSON features
Roles
Who you can hire
Database developer
Designs and evolves your schema as the product grows.
Performance engineer
Finds and fixes slow queries and locking problems.
Migration developer
Moves data from MySQL, spreadsheets or legacy systems into Postgres.
Engagement
Ways to work with us
Dedicated developer
A full-time developer on your project: 160 hours a month, your tools, your standups.
Part-time or hourly
Hours when you need them, for a defined backlog or ongoing improvements, with every billed hour tracked in Hubstaff.
A small team
Developers plus a lead who plans the work, reviews code and sends daily or weekly reports by email.
Hiring terms
Low risk to start, easy to change
2-week trial
Start with a two-week trial before you commit.
Free replacement
If a developer isn’t the right fit, we replace them at no cost.
No minimum term
No long-term contract and no minimum hours. Scale up, down or stop when you need to.
You own the code
The code and IP are yours, and we sign an NDA before we see your codebase.
Full-time Widle employees
Every developer is on our team in Ahmedabad. No freelancers, no subcontractors.
Start in 1–2 weeks
A developer usually joins your team within one to two weeks of your enquiry.
Junior to lead
Junior, mid-level and senior developers, or a lead who plans the work and reviews code.
Hours that fit yours
Our day runs 9:00 am–7:00 pm IST; for US teams we shift hours to overlap with yours.
How it works
Hire PostgreSQL developers in four steps
- 01
Enquiry
Share your requirements: stack, scope, time zone and how many developers you need.
- 02
Shortlist profiles
We share the profiles of suitable developers for you to shortlist.
- 03
Interview
Your team interviews the shortlisted candidates and picks who to work with.
- 04
Add to team
The developer joins your team and starts on your project, with reporting from day one.
Vetting
How we vet PostgreSQL developers
A few of the questions we ask, and what a good answer tells us. Use them in your own interview too.
- Q1
How would you speed up a slow report query?
Checks EXPLAIN and index skills.
- Q2
How do you add a column to a large table safely?
Tests migration practice.
- Q3
When would you denormalise?
Checks design trade-offs.
- Q4
How do you verify a data migration?
Looks for counts, checksums and reconciliation.
PostgreSQL at Widle
What we build with PostgreSQL
Database Migration & Management
Move off MySQL, Airtable or Sheets to PostgreSQL or Supabase with every row checked, then keep it fast, backed up and documented.
Learn more →ETL & Data Pipelines
Get data out of every app, clean it and land it where your reports and AI can use it. Scheduled, logged and checked.
Learn more →Internal Tools & Admin Panels
Replace the spreadsheet everyone fights over with a dashboard or back office your team actually likes using, built to a fixed-scope estimate.
Learn more →Hiring PostgreSQL developers: FAQs
Have you moved teams onto PostgreSQL before?
Yes. We gave Instacoach a PostgreSQL database behind a Retool dashboard, kept in sync with the Google Sheet the team relied on, and PostgreSQL sits under Nomadic Care and MaverickRE. Read the Instacoach case study →
Do you work with managed Postgres?
Yes, including Supabase and cloud-managed Postgres.
Can you migrate us from MySQL?
Yes. We plan the move, migrate the data and check row counts and totals before you switch over.
Can we hire for a one-off performance review?
Yes. Hourly engagements suit a focused review.