Back-end work stalls when the business rules live in one person's head and every release waits on them.
Hire Laravel Developers for APIs, SaaS Back Ends & Admin Panels
Laravel engineers who have run APIs, background jobs and multi-tenant products in production, and who read your domain logic before they refactor it.
- Current PHP and Laravel releases as the default
- Eloquent, queues, events and scheduled jobs in daily use
- Changes covered by Pest or PHPUnit tests
- Interview the developer yourself before you sign
- DaysTo a shortlist
- MonthlyContract terms
- YoursCode and IP
Teams That Build With SyntecHire
References available on request.
What You Can Build With Laravel
SaaS Back Ends
Multi-tenant applications with subscriptions, roles and data kept separate for each customer.
Tech Stack
- Laravel
- PostgreSQL
- Laravel Cashier
- Redis
Outcome
New customers are onboarded without an engineer touching the database.
Laravel is open-source software released under the MIT licence, and its documentation covers queues, task scheduling, authentication and an ORM as first-party features.
Technical Expertise Our Laravel Developers Bring
Relationships, eager loading and indexes, with migrations written to run against a live database.
- Eloquent
- Migrations
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
Consistent resources, validation and error formats, with versioning planned before the first client ships.
- Sanctum
- API Resources
- OpenAPI
Idempotent jobs, retry rules and failure handling so background work can be trusted with money and email.
- Horizon
- Redis
- Amazon SQS
Feature tests for the paths that matter, unit tests for the rules behind them, and factories for realistic data.
- Pest
- PHPUnit
- Laravel Dusk
Type checks and formatting run in the pipeline, so reviews are about design and not about spacing.
- PHPStan
- Larastan
- Laravel Pint
Server-driven interfaces or a JavaScript front end, chosen to suit the skills your team already has.
- Livewire
- Inertia.js
- Blade
Policies for every sensitive action, validated input and secrets kept out of the repository.
- Policies
- Gates
- Form Requests
Repeatable releases, cached configuration and logs that make a production fault quick to trace.
- Docker
- GitHub Actions
- Laravel Forge
How Laravel Has Evolved
- 2011
Laravel 1First release
Taylor Otwell published the first version of the framework.
- 2013
Laravel 4Composer
Rebuilt as a set of Composer packages, which opened it to the wider PHP ecosystem.
- 2015
Laravel 5Restructure
A new directory structure, a built-in task scheduler and form request validation.
- 2020
Laravel 8Factories
Class-based model factories, job batching and migration squashing.
- 2022
Laravel 9Yearly cycle
Moved to one major release a year and required PHP 8.
- 2024
Laravel 11Slimmer skeleton
A leaner application structure and the introduction of Laravel Reverb for WebSockets.
When Laravel Is The Right Choice
Choose Laravel when
- The product is a database-backed web applicationAccounts, records, permissions and billing are what the framework was designed around.
- You prefer conventions to a blank pageLaravel makes most structural decisions for you, so a new developer knows where things live.
- A small team has to cover a lot of groundAuthentication, mail, queues and scheduling come with the framework and do not need to be assembled.
- You already run PHPExisting hosting, skills and libraries carry over, which lowers the cost of the move.
Consider something else when
- The workload is heavy computationNumerical processing and data science are better served by Python or a compiled language.
- You need one tiny standalone serviceA full framework is more than a single-purpose function requires.
- Your team runs another back-end stack wellAdding a second language brings extra hosting, tooling and hiring to manage.
- The site is mostly content pagesA content management system gives editors more for less engineering effort.
Why CTOs Choose Us
Candidates review and extend a working Laravel application, because most real work is changing code someone else wrote.
You interview the developer and look at how they work before any contract is signed.
A developer works for a single client, so knowledge of your domain is not split across projects.
If the match does not work out, we provide another developer and manage the handover.
Terms run month to month and there is no exit fee.
How Your Developer Joins The Team
- 1Step 1
Discovery
A call about your stack, team and the work ahead.
- 2Step 2
Matching
A shortlist of people who have done similar work.
- 3Step 3
Onboarding
Access, environment setup and a first small task.
- 4Step 4
Shipping
Regular pull requests inside your review process.
AI In Delivery
Where coding assistants help, and where a person decides.
Used for speed
Boilerplate, test scaffolding and first drafts of documentation.
Always reviewed
Every change is read and approved by an engineer before it merges.
Never given secrets
Credentials and client data stay out of prompts. Your policy on AI tools applies.
Security And IP
What we enforce on every engagement.
IP assignment
All work product is assigned to you in the contract.
NDA first
Signed before anyone sees your code.
Least privilege
Access limited to what the task needs.
Clean exit
Access revoked and handover documented when work ends.
Laravel Developer Pricing Tiers
- Early career
Entry
On request
- Works on defined tasks
- Pairs with a senior reviewer
- Suited to well-scoped backlog items
- Mid level
Experienced
On request
- Owns features end to end
- Reviews others' code
- Suited to most product teams
- Senior
Expert
On request
- Leads architecture decisions
- Mentors the team
- Suited to complex or legacy systems
Rates depend on seniority, stack and team size. We quote a fixed monthly figure per developer.
What Is Included In The Rate
| SyntecHire dedicated developer | Typical freelancer | |
|---|---|---|
| Screening and onboarding | Included | Your time |
| Replacement if the fit is wrong | Included | Start again |
| Continuity and handover notes | Included | Varies |
| IP assignment and NDA | In the contract | Varies |
| Availability | Full time on your product | Shared across clients |
Is A Dedicated Developer The Right Fit?
Five quick questions.
1Is the work expected to run for three months or longer?
2Do you have someone who can set priorities each week?
3Is there an existing codebase or a clear specification?
4Do you want the developer inside your own tools and reviews?
5Would losing context between contractors hurt the project?
0 of 5 answered. Answer every question to see the result.
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Laravel Hiring Questions
Candidates complete a review exercise on an existing Laravel application, followed by a live technical interview and a communication check. We look for people who have kept a production back end running, not only built new ones.
Yes. Tell us the Laravel and PHP versions you run. We shortlist people who have carried out upgrades across major versions and can plan yours in stages.
Yes. Developers work with the test tools already in your repository, whether that is Pest or PHPUnit. How a candidate tests a change is part of the assessment.
You do. The contract assigns all work to you, and every commit goes into your own repositories.
Yours. The developer joins your repository, ticketing and chat, and follows your review process.
Yes. The NDA is signed before any access to your code or systems is given.