Lead PostgreSQL Engineer: Remote, Open Source Impact

Retelligence Ltd; United States; Remote; USD 96,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

Retelligence Ltd. is seeking a PostgreSQL-centric engineer to own the platform's central database hosted on Supabase, focusing on design, automation and scaling.

You will lead the two-way sync between note-taking platforms, extend schema to store full note content and expose it through the API for AI tools.

The role offers a fully remote arrangement for the East Coast US or Canada, with an initial 3-month contract and potential extension, part-time or full-time considered.

Qualifications

• PostgreSQL as main skill: schema design, migrations and performance.
• Experience keeping two systems or applications in sync.
• Automation mindset: scripts, CI/CD, infrastructure as code.
• Clear written communication explaining trade-offs in PRs and tickets.
• Comfort making decisions with imperfect information and documenting reasoning.

Responsibilities

• Own the central PostgreSQL database for the platform.
• Finish a two-way sync between two note-taking platforms with conflict handling.
• Extend the schema to store full note content and expose via API for AI tools.
• Fix import issues causing sync failures.
• Write short assessment of upcoming data-model changes: costs, impact, timing.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Data synchronization

Automation & CI/CD

Clear written communication

Decision making under uncertainty

Tools

Supabase

AWS RDS

Aurora

Neon

Cloud SQL

Job description

Retelligence Ltd. is seeking a PostgreSQL-centric engineer to own the platform's central database hosted on Supabase, focusing on design, automation and scaling.

You will lead the two-way sync between note-taking platforms, extend schema to store full note content and expose it through the API for AI tools.

The role offers a fully remote arrangement for the East Coast US or Canada, with an initial 3-month contract and potential extension, part-time or full-time considered.