Laravel developers

Hire a Laravel developer who ships features with tests

Add a Laravel developer to your product team for new features, API work, queue and performance problems or a version upgrade. They follow your branching model and review process from the first pull request.

  • Works in your repository
  • Tests with every feature
  • Replaced if not a fit
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What your developer brings
  • Eloquent and database design
  • APIs and authentication
  • Queues, jobs and scheduling
  • Automated testing
  • Front ends on Laravel
  • Billing, tenancy and SaaS plumbing
Request developer profiles Reply within one business day. NDA on request.
Why hire

What pushes product teams to hire this way

Product teams hire Laravel developers for one of three reasons. The roadmap is bigger than the team. The one person who knew the codebase has left. Or the application has grown past its first design, so queues back up, pages run a hundred queries and deployments feel risky.

In each case you need someone who can read an existing Laravel application quickly and start contributing through your normal process, not a consultant who wants to redesign it. Our developers build Laravel SaaS products, internal systems and Laravel APIs for mobile and front-end teams. You interview them, they join your chat, board and repository, and a project manager at our end keeps hours and reporting straight.

  • Hiring a good Laravel engineer takes months

    Screening, take-home tests, notice periods. By the time a permanent hire starts, the release they were meant to help with has slipped or been cut.

  • The roadmap swings

    A funding round or a big customer doubles the workload for two quarters, then it settles. Adding and releasing salaried staff to match is slow and unkind. A contract in monthly hours is neither.

  • Freelancers work outside your process

    Code arrives as a zip or a giant pull request with no tests. Nobody reviewed the migration. It works on their machine and fails in your queue workers.

  • Your lead developer is the bottleneck

    Every decision and every review goes through one person. An experienced extra pair of hands who needs little supervision gives that person their week back.

Skills

The Laravel skills we shortlist for

We look for developers who know the framework well enough to use its conventions and to explain when to step outside them.

Eloquent and database design

Models, relationships, scopes and migrations designed for the queries you will run, with eager loading to stop N+1 problems and indexes added from evidence.

APIs and authentication

Versioned REST APIs with API Resources, Form Request validation, Sanctum or Passport tokens, rate limiting and policies that keep one customer's data away from another.

Queues, jobs and scheduling

Background jobs on Redis with Horizon, retries and failure handling, idempotent jobs for payments and emails, and scheduled commands that do not overlap.

Automated testing

Feature and unit tests in Pest or PHPUnit, factories and fakes for mail, queues and HTTP, run in CI on every pull request so a regression is caught before review.

Front ends on Laravel

Blade and Livewire for server-driven screens, Inertia with Vue or React for richer ones, and admin panels in Filament or Nova when you need back-office tools quickly.

Billing, tenancy and SaaS plumbing

Subscriptions with Cashier and Stripe, multi-tenant data separation, roles and permissions, audit logs and the onboarding flows a product needs before its first customer.

Hand over

Four ways teams use a Laravel developer

01

Roadmap features

Stories from your backlog, built behind feature flags where useful, with migrations, tests and documentation, and merged through the same review as your own team's work.

02

Performance and queue problems

Slow endpoints profiled with Telescope or your APM, N+1 queries removed, heavy work moved to jobs and Horizon tuned so queues drain during peak hours.

03

A Laravel version upgrade

Dependencies audited, deprecated code replaced, the test suite made green on the new release and the upgrade shipped in steps instead of one risky jump.

04

An API for your app or integrations

Endpoints, tokens, documentation and a sandbox for your mobile developers or integration partners, built on the models you already have.

In depth

Inside your sprint, not beside it

The first pull request arrives in days

Onboarding a Laravel developer is quick when the project has a working README, and revealing when it does not. On day one they clone the repository, build the environment with Sail or Docker, run the migrations and the test suite, and note every step that was missing from the docs. Their first pull request is often that corrected setup guide plus a small bug fix. It is a modest start on purpose. You see how they write commits, describe a change and respond to review before anything important depends on them.

By the end of week two

They should have shipped a handful of small stories and understand the core domain: the main models, how tenants or accounts are separated, which jobs run in the background and what the deployment pipeline does. Expect a short list of observations too. Typical entries are controllers doing work that belongs in jobs, missing indexes, or a scheduler entry that can overlap itself.

What a sprint with them looks like

They pick up stories from your board like anyone else on the team, ask questions in the ticket or your chat channel and keep work in small branches. A pull request from our developers includes the migration, the tests, a note on how to verify it and anything operations need to know, such as a new environment variable or queue. They review other people's pull requests if you want that. Estimates and blockers are raised early. The project manager compiles the report your engagement model calls for, so nobody on your side has to chase hours.

Migrations, deployments and other sharp edges

Most of the risk in Laravel work sits outside the features: a migration that locks a large table, a job that is not safe to retry, a cache key that leaks across tenants. Our developers write migrations that can be rolled back, split destructive schema changes across releases and test queued work with failure in mind. Production access is yours to grant or withhold.

Measuring fit after a month

Look at review comments. If your lead is correcting the same things in week four as in week one, the fit is wrong, and you should ask us for a replacement. If reviews have turned into short conversations about design choices, you have the right person. Teams that also need front-end capacity sometimes add a full-stack developer at that point.

Engagement models

Three ways to work with your developer

Part timeFull time Most chosenHourly
Effort4 hours a day8 hours a day8 hours a day
AllocationSharedDedicatedDedicated
Minimum term40 hours a month120 hours a month160 hours a month
BillingWeekly, in advanceMonthly, in advanceMonthly, in advance
ReportingOn completionWeeklyDaily
SupportChat, emailChat, emailChat, email, calls

Five working days a week. Rates depend on the role and seniority, and are quoted after a free consultation.

Hiring process

From first call to first commit

  1. 1

    Tell us what you need

    We go through the work, the stack, the hours and the time zone you want covered.

  2. 2

    We shortlist developers

    You get profiles of developers from our own team who fit the role.

  3. 3

    You review and interview

    Read their resumes, talk to them, set a small test task if you like.

  4. 4

    Ask for more options

    Not convinced yet? We put forward other candidates until you are.

  5. 5

    Confirm and sign

    Pick an engagement model. The contract and NDA are signed before work starts.

  6. 6

    Kick-off call

    Meet your developer and project manager, share access, agree the first week.

What you get

What you get with the developer

  • Pull requests with tests and migration notes
  • A corrected setup guide for your project
  • Reports compiled by our project manager
  • A written list of risks found in the codebase
  • Code in your repository from the first commit
FAQ

Laravel hiring questions from product teams

Can the developer join our existing team and tools?
Yes. They work in your repository, board and chat, follow your branching and review rules and use the channels you already have, such as Slack or Google Meet. Our project manager handles hours and reporting in the background.
How do you check a developer's Laravel skills before we meet them?
We shortlist from developers already on our staff, whose work we know from real projects. You receive their resumes and can interview them however you like, including a technical conversation with your lead or a paired review of a sample task.
We have no tests. Is that a problem?
It is common and it is fixable. The developer adds tests around each area they touch, starting with the paths that would hurt most if they broke, such as billing and permissions. Coverage grows with normal feature work instead of pausing the roadmap for a testing project.
Can they handle DevOps for our Laravel app?
They can set up and maintain a standard deployment: Forge or a similar tool, zero-downtime releases, queue workers, scheduler and backups. For complex infrastructure such as autoscaling clusters you will want a dedicated operations person alongside them.
Is one developer enough for a new product build?
For a small first release with a clear scope, sometimes. A product that needs design, a front end, QA and a firm timeline is better served by a dedicated team or a fixed project. We will tell you which we think fits after the first call.
What happens to the code if we stop?
Nothing changes. The code has been in your repository all along, and you own it. We hand over any notes, credentials and environment details the developer holds, and access on our side is closed.
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Share the size of the team, what is on the roadmap and where you need help. After a short call we send resumes of Laravel developers, and you decide who to interview.

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