Hire Laravel Developers
Laravel makes the first version of an application quick to write. The difficulty arrives later, when controllers have grown to several hundred lines, the queue fails silently, and the framework is three major releases behind. Our Laravel developers are used to arriving at that point.
The engineer works inside your Git repository and your ticket board, and takes instructions from you. Employment, hardware and holiday cover stay with us. Questions go straight between you and the person doing the work.
Laravel jobs you can pass to us
Laravel projects tend to need the same handful of things once they are in production. These six cover most of them.
Framework upgrades
Laravel ships a major release every year, and skipping several makes the jump harder. We move one major version at a time, update first-party and community packages alongside, and run the test suite at each stop so a failure points to one change.
Queues and scheduled work
Jobs that retry forever, jobs that time out half-way, schedules that overlap themselves. We set retry limits and backoff, make handlers safe to run twice, watch the workers with Horizon, and send failed jobs somewhere a person will see them.
Eloquent performance
Lazy loading inside a loop is the usual culprit. We turn on strict mode in development to catch it, add eager loading and indexes, chunk large exports, and move heavy reports off the request and onto a queue.
APIs for mobile and single-page apps
Token or cookie authentication with Sanctum, API resources that keep the response shape stable, form requests for validation, policies for authorisation, and rate limits per user instead of per server.
Admin panels and back-office screens
Internal tools built with Filament, Nova or Livewire, so staff can manage orders, users and content without a developer running database queries on their behalf.
Untangling fat controllers
Business rules moved out of controllers and Blade templates into action classes and services, with feature tests written first so behaviour stays the same while the code is rearranged.
Packages and services around the framework
Much of Laravel's value is in its first-party packages. Knowing which one fits, and which one is unnecessary, saves a good deal of custom code.
- First-party packages
- SanctumHorizonScoutCashierReverbTelescopePulse
- Interface layer
- BladeLivewireInertia.jsFilamentNovaVite
- Data and queues
- MySQLPostgreSQLRedisAmazon SQSMeilisearch
- Code quality
- PestPHPUnitLarastanPintLaravel Dusk
- Hosting
- ForgeVaporDockerNginxOctaneGitHub Actions
Which level of Laravel developer the job needs
Laravel is easy to start with, so the gap between levels shows up less in syntax and more in what happens under load, under failure and during an upgrade.
Junior
Builds resource controllers, migrations, form requests and Blade views from a written ticket. Knows the documentation well. Still learning why a query is slow or why a job ran twice.
Choose when: a senior on your side reviews pull requests and the tasks are clearly described.
Mid-level
Delivers a whole feature: database changes, queue jobs, notifications, tests and the deployment notes. Picks an existing package when one fits and says so when it does not.
Choose when: the architecture is settled and you need the backlog to move at a predictable pace.
Senior
Plans upgrades across several major versions, designs multi-tenant data separation, decides what belongs in a queue, and reviews the work of others. Comfortable reading framework source code when the documentation stops.
Choose when: the application handles payments or personal data, or nobody on your team knows Laravel deeply.
How a Laravel engagement begins
Send the basics
Tell us the Laravel and PHP versions, where the application is hosted, and the change you have in mind. The composer.json file answers many of our questions by itself.
Interview the Laravel engineer we propose
We put forward one named person with their background. You interview them directly and can ask for a different candidate.
Begin with one contained ticket
A single bug, a report or a small endpoint is enough to show how the developer reads code, asks questions and writes tests.
Then a written note each week
Tasks live on your board. Each week you receive a written note on what was merged and what is waiting on a decision. Invoicing is monthly.
Laravel developer rates
Our rates are published. Pick the role and move the sliders for an indicative budget.
Rate card
| Role | Hourly | Monthly* |
|---|---|---|
| Frontend / WordPress | AED 110 | AED 17,600 |
| Backend / API | AED 118 | AED 18,880 |
| Full-stack | AED 129 | AED 20,640 |
| Mobile (React Native / Flutter) | AED 129 | AED 20,640 |
| DevOps / Cloud | AED 147 | AED 23,520 |
| AI / Automation engineer | AED 165 | AED 26,400 |
| QA / Test engineer | AED 92 | AED 14,720 |
| UI / UX design | AED 103 | AED 16,480 |
*160 hrs/month full-time. Rates are indicative for planning, in UAE dirhams (converted from our US-dollar rates at the fixed peg of 3.6725), before VAT where applicable, and depend on seniority, contract length and timezone overlap. Longer engagements and multi-role teams are discounted — ask.
Does a dedicated Laravel developer suit your project?
We are a good choice when
- Your product is built on Laravel and the list of changes never gets shorter.
- You would like one person who learns the codebase, not a different contractor each time.
- The framework version is old and you want it brought up to date without a rewrite.
- You run an agency and need Laravel work delivered under your own brand.
Look elsewhere when
- You need a single small fix and nothing afterwards.
- Your policy requires the developer to be on your premises.
- You are looking for a fixed quote while the requirements are still being written.
- You want a site assembled from a purchased script with no code changes. That is a configuration job, not a development one.
Questions about Laravel work, answered
Our application is on Laravel 5 or 6. Can it be upgraded?
Yes, step by step. Each major version has an upgrade guide, and we follow them in order instead of jumping to the newest release. Abandoned packages are the main obstacle, so we list those first and tell you which need replacing.
Livewire or Inertia for a new interface?
Livewire suits teams that want to stay in PHP and Blade. Inertia suits teams that already write Vue or React. Both are well supported. We recommend whichever your own staff can maintain after we finish.
Can you work on a multi-tenant Laravel application?
Yes. The first thing we check is how tenants are separated: one database each, or a tenant column on shared tables. Queued jobs, cache keys and file storage must respect the same boundary, and those are the places where leaks usually occur.
We have no tests. Where would you start?
With feature tests on the routes that handle money and sign-in, since those are the costliest to break. Further tests are added around each area as it is changed.
Who holds the rights to the code?
You hold them. Commits are pushed to your repository from the first day, and the agreement sets out ownership and confidentiality before any work begins.
What happens if our developer moves on?
We propose a replacement and you decide whether to accept them. Because the code and notes are already in your repository, the new engineer starts from the project history, not from nothing.
Send us the outline of your Laravel project
A few lines will do: what the application is for, the Laravel version it runs, and the first thing you want changed. Expect an answer within one business day.