I'm not new to python nor postgres lol, I wouldn't dare to ask to get paid for learning a new language on the fly.
Nothing is ever "super simple" at this scale. Your comment probably indicates that you're not a dev yourself, there is a reason blocktrades and team have been hacking at it for a year to optimize hivemind and are still not done.
I didn't say you are new, but new to learning hivemind and postgres stack right?! Because I don't remember seeing your contributions to hivemind before, as you noted it has changed a lot and even for blocktrades team it took close to a year to familiarize themselves and optimize