Hire a senior Laravel developer who finishes the job
16 years shipping Laravel in production. Fixed monthly price. Daily async updates. 14-day money-back if the first two weeks disappoint.
Who this is for
Technical founder or engineering manager who needs a senior Laravel hand for 3 to 12 months without filing a full-time requisition.
The pain today
- Your last Laravel freelancer ghosted you mid-sprint.
- The previous agency left spaghetti controllers and zero queue strategy.
- Your in-house team is PHP-curious but not PHP-fluent.
- Nobody on the team knows how to upgrade Laravel 8 to 11 safely.
The outcome you get
- A senior Laravel engineer with 16 years of production experience.
- Fixed monthly subscription at $3,499 — no surprise invoices.
- 2 to 4 day delivery cycles with daily async updates.
- Work Made for Hire — every line of code is yours from day one.
What a senior Laravel developer actually does
A senior Laravel developer is not a CRUD technician. The day-to-day work is API design that survives scale, queue and job architecture that does not lose money, Eloquent patterns that avoid the N+1 trap, and deploy pipelines that do not need a human in the loop. On my projects the split is roughly 40% product thinking, 30% backend (controllers, jobs, events, form requests, policies), 20% frontend integration (React or Inertia or Vue), and 10% infrastructure (AWS, Pulumi, Docker). If the role you are hiring for only covers one of those, you are buying a contractor. If it covers all four, you are buying leverage. I ship the second.
Production Laravel across three live products
Laravel is in every application I have shipped in the last five years. At GigEasy I built an investor-ready MVP in 3 weeks on Laravel plus React plus PostgreSQL plus Redis plus Docker plus Pulumi — the app went from zero code to investor demo inside a 10-week window that most teams miss. At Cuez by Tinkerlist I inherited a Laravel API that answered in 3 seconds and rebuilt it to 300ms (10x faster) while cutting infrastructure cost by about 40%. At Imohub I rebuilt a real estate portal on Laravel plus Next.js that now indexes 120k+ properties with under 0.5 second queries. Same framework, three completely different domains, same senior ownership model.
What gets built under the monthly plan
The Applications subscription at $3,499 per month includes API design (REST or GraphQL), queue and job architecture (Horizon, Redis-backed), Laravel plus React or Inertia SPA work, authentication (Sanctum, Fortify, Jetstream, or custom), legacy Laravel 5 through 11 upgrades, test suite bootstrapping (Pest or PHPUnit), CI and deploy pipelines on AWS or Vercel, and observability (Sentry, Laravel Telescope, structured logging). You get 2 to 4 day delivery cycles, a Linear or Jira board you can check any time, and daily async updates. Cancel anytime after the first month — the 14-day money-back guarantee applies to week one and two.
How this compares to hiring full-time
A US-based senior Laravel engineer lands at $160k to $200k fully loaded once you add benefits, equity, and recruiter fees. Offshore teams price lower but charge you the coordination tax: three vendors, four time zones, nobody owning the product. The monthly subscription at $3,499 is one senior person running product, backend, frontend integration, and deploy — no middleman, no handoff. If the engagement ends after 90 days you have paid roughly $10.5k for a production Laravel application. Most agencies have not scoped the ticket by then.
Recent proof
A comparable engagement, delivered and documented.
Built and shipped an investor-ready MVP from scratch
Built the entire technological base and delivered MVP in just 3 weeks, enabling a successful rapid launch and investor demo.
Frequently asked questions
The questions prospects ask before they book.
- Which Laravel versions have you shipped in production?
- Laravel 5 through 11. Most current work runs on Laravel 10 and 11 with PHP 8.2 or 8.3. Legacy upgrades from 5 and 6 are common — I have migrated apps through every breaking release since 5.5.
- Do you work on legacy Laravel codebases or greenfield only?
- Both. Cuez was a legacy Laravel rescue (3 second API to 300ms). GigEasy was greenfield (zero to investor demo in 3 weeks). Imohub started as a rebuild. The monthly price is the same either way.
- Laravel plus React or Laravel plus Vue or Laravel plus Inertia?
- All three, depending on the use case. React plus separate SPA for public products. Inertia when you want Laravel routing and a React or Vue frontend without the API layer overhead. Vue for teams that already prefer it (Cuez was Vue plus Laravel).
- Do you also handle deploys and infrastructure?
- Yes. AWS with Pulumi is the default stack (GigEasy shipped this way). Docker for local dev and CI. I do not hand the app off to a separate devops team — the same person who writes the code owns the deploy.
- What if I am not happy in the first month?
- You get a full refund inside the 14-day money-back window. After that you cancel anytime, month to month. Every line of code you have paid for stays yours under the Work Made for Hire clause.
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