We’re trying to hire someone to level up our Airtable + n8n 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, Stacker, 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?
I’d hire a backend or systems-minded engineer, not a pure low-code builder.
At your scale, the hard part is architecture, data lifecycle, retries, observability, and maintainability across Airtable, n8n, and the rest of the stack. I’d look for profiles like Solutions Architect, Platform Engineer, or Senior Automation Engineer, and I’d avoid hiring someone who is great at shipping fast but weak on system design and long-term maintainability.
Thanks. This is also what I am thinking of at the moment. From my research online, it seems like we need a Business Systems Analyst or Business Systems Architect. Maybe slightly less technical than what you mentioned, but a bit more adapted to a low code environment in a structured setup.