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Pre-screened PostgreSQL Developers who have tuned slow queries, planned zero-downtime migrations, and scaled replicas on stacks like yours, matched to you in about 3 days.
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When to hire a Fractional PostgreSQL Developer
Hire a PostgreSQL Developer when database problems start costing you uptime, customers, or engineering velocity and nobody on the team owns Postgres full time.
Pages are slowing down as data grows
Queries that ran in milliseconds now take seconds, and your app engineers are guessing at indexes instead of reading query plans.
A migration keeps getting postponed
You need to move from MySQL, Oracle, or a self-hosted server to Postgres or a managed service like RDS or Aurora, and no one wants to own the cutover risk.
Schema changes lock production tables
Adding a column or index during business hours causes timeouts, so releases get pushed to late nights.
Your cloud database bill keeps climbing
You keep upsizing instances to mask bloat, missing vacuum tuning, and connection limits rather than fixing the root cause.
Backups and failover have never been tested
Replication, point-in-time recovery, and failover exist on paper, but nobody has proven they work under pressure.
Your database expert just left
The one engineer who understood your stored procedures, triggers, and partitioning scheme is gone, and the team is afraid to touch them.
The benefits of hiring a Fractional PostgreSQL Developer
Bring in a PostgreSQL Developer who has already fixed the indexing, locking, and replication problems you are facing, and pay only for the depth your database needs right now.
Cut slow queries before you add headcount
Senior Postgres expertise on a monthly retainer instead of a full-time salary, benefits, and equity for a role you may only need part of the week.
Ship the migration before the next sprint ends
Pre-screened PostgreSQL Developers are ready to interview in days, so your upgrade or schema overhaul does not wait months for a recruiting cycle.
Hand your schema to a proven Postgres expert
Every operator is pre-screened by veteran executive recruiters for hands-on work with EXPLAIN plans, partitioning, replication, and extensions like PostGIS and pgvector.
How to hire a Fractional PostgreSQL Developer
No more juggling job boards and sorting through pools of unqualified applicants. Hiring a Fractional PostgreSQL Developer is easy with Go Fractional.
Intro Call
Answer a few quick questions, then book a free 30-minute intro call with our team to review your goals, needs, and team dynamics.
Meet Experts
Our AI finds Fractional PostgreSQL Developer candidates whose past clients and projects match your brief, which you won’t find on LinkedIn. A dedicated executive recruiter verifies each one’s experience, fit, and genuine interest, and you meet the ones who fit in about 3 days.
Start Work
Book time with candidates right from your shortlist, choose your operator, and sign a simple month-to-month agreement. We move as fast as you do.
Engagements that fit how you work
Every Go Fractional engagement is structured for senior leadership without full-time overhead. Start fractional, scale up, or convert to full-time when you’re ready.
Fractional PostgreSQL Developer
- Senior leadership on a part-time schedule
- Monthly retainer, no recruiting fees
- Scale hours up or down as needs change
Contract-to-Hire
Trial a Fractional PostgreSQL Developer on a fractional engagement before converting them to a full-time hire.
- Keep the expert's learnings or convert to full-time
- Try the fit before you commit, no hiring risk
- Faster speed to market, conserving time and resources
Interim PostgreSQL Developer
Full-time coverage for a defined stretch: a leadership gap, a transition, or a critical project.
Hire InterimFractional vs full-time vs agency
Three ways to get PostgreSQL Developer leadership, and where each one wins.
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| Factor | Fractional PostgreSQL Developer | Full-time PostgreSQL hire | Agency / dev shop |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to hire | ~3 days to match | 2-5 months | 1-4 weeks |
| Engagement | Monthly retainer, custom SOW | Salary + benefits + equity | Project markup, fixed scope |
| Who does the work | The senior operator you interviewed | Your employee | Whoever the shop assigns |
| Postgres depth | Specialist matched to your exact problem | Depends on the local talent pool | Often generalist backend devs |
| Knowledge retention | Documents runbooks inside your team | Stays in-house | Leaves when the project closes |
| Best for | Tuning, migrations, and ongoing schema ownership | Large data teams with constant DB workload | Fully outsourced builds with a fixed spec |
We’ve helped hundreds of organizations Go Fractional
Twelve years: the average experience across a network of handpicked executives ready to make an impact on day one.
“It was literally three days after he started with us fractionally, our CEO was calling me and asking if we could get a full-time offer out.”
“It's a can't-lose scenario. You either get the learnings from the subject matter expert, or you get the full-time capability. It provided a ton of flexibility, much faster speed to market, and conservation of time and resources.”
“Go Fractional provided Mockingbird with a founder-level engineering leader that helped us out of a huge amount of tech debt, streamlining and modernizing our entire e-commerce stack”
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