What profile should we hire to build enterprise-grade internal tools on Airtable and Make?

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:bullseye: What is your goal?

We’re looking for advice on what type of hire makes sense to help us build and maintain enterprise-grade, scalable internal tools using Airtable together with automation tools like Make.

:thinking: What is the problem & what have you tried?

We’re trying to hire someone to level up our Airtable + Make setup and would love advice from people here who’ve scaled this kind of stack.

Our setup today:

multiple Airtable bases
500k+ records
frequent archival work
~50 daily users
integrations with Zapier, Make, n8n, Supabase, and Polytomic

At this point, our challenge is less about building fast and more about building a solid architecture that scales and stays maintainable.

We’re debating between profiles like:

low-code builders
backend/systems-minded engineers
implementation consultants

For those who’ve seen this done well, what type of person would you hire? What titles/backgrounds tend to work best? And what mistakes should we avoid?

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Hey there,

Can’t really say what profile you should hire, but can definitely say what you shouldn’t.

If the price seems too good to be true, then it is. Enterprise grade automations will be expensive. If you hire someone cheap, then you will need to hire someone more expensive to fix it.
If the person promises everything, they don’t know what they are talking about. There are always limitations and an expert will tell you about them.
If the person doesn’t question, again, they don’t know what they are talking about. They don’t know what to ask you. A true expert will listen and ask questions at the start of the process and not suggest things right off the bat.

Also, of someone responds here about offering you their services, definitely don’t hire them. Self promotions are against the rules here, and if they don’t respect that, then they won’t respect you either. If you are looking for quotes, make a second post in the hire a Pro section.