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Hire Laravel developers

Add a Laravel engineer to your team to build and maintain the PHP application your business runs on. For teams with a Laravel codebase that has outgrown its first author, or a build that needs starting properly.

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What they do

What a Laravel Developer from infoloop actually builds.

Application development in Laravel

Controllers, Eloquent models, migrations and Blade or Livewire views written the way the framework expects. Code a Laravel engineer can pick up next year without first learning a layer of local conventions.

APIs and integrations

JSON APIs with resource classes, versioning, consistent error responses and Sanctum or Passport for auth. Payment providers, CRMs and internal services wired in with retries, timeouts and idempotency.

Queues, jobs and scheduling

Imports, exports, emails and reports moved off the request and into queued jobs, with Horizon watching them. Scheduled tasks defined in code rather than in a crontab nobody remembers editing.

Admin panels and internal tools

The screens your team uses all day: roles and permissions, search, filters, bulk actions and exports. Built with Filament or Nova where that fits the job, or plainly in Blade where it does not.

Upgrades and legacy PHP

Laravel brought up to a supported release, dependencies unpinned carefully, and older PHP applications moved across in stages rather than in one rewrite that stops every other piece of work.

Testing and deployment

Pest or PHPUnit feature tests that boot the framework and hit real routes, with factories building fixtures against a database refreshed each run. Releases run migrations, rebuild cached config and restart the queue workers, because a release that forgets the workers looks perfectly healthy while jobs quietly stop being processed.

How it runs

Plan. Build. Run.

01

A 30 minute call

Walk us through the repository: which Laravel release it sits on, whether domain logic lives in controllers or in service and action classes, and what the scheduler fires today. Half an hour is normally enough to tell whether the framework is being followed or fought. Nothing to sit through, nothing to pay for.

02

Fixed scope and price

The scope comes back as a written list of what changes in the codebase: which models, which endpoints, which admin screens, which queued jobs. Every line carries a duration and a figure. Ask for something outside that list and it gets priced on its own, instead of quietly pushing everything behind it.

03

Build in the open

Pull requests arrive throughout, never in one lump at the end, so structural choices surface while they are still cheap to move. If you would sooner validation lived in form requests than inside the controller, say it on that pull request and it changes there.

04

Launch, then run

Going live means more than pushing code: workers supervised so they come back cleanly, the scheduler genuinely firing, Horizon reporting throughput, failed jobs waking somebody up. We stay close through the first week of production load, then either continue on a retainer or hand you the keys.

Why infoloop

We do not hand over and leave.

  • The retainer, in practiceKeeping a Laravel application healthy is mostly unglamorous: composer updates applied before they become a major-version jump, failed jobs cleared instead of piling into a table nobody opens, a slow endpoint traced back to a missing eager load. Our retainer is exactly that work, done by whoever wrote the application.
  • Plain Laravel, nothing exoticWhat you end up holding is an ordinary Laravel application: standard directory layout, standard Artisan commands, dependencies from Packagist. Hand it to any competent Laravel developer and they are productive. Nothing binds the codebase to us, and no hosting arrangement traps it either.
  • Your conventions winWe adopt whatever patterns already exist in the repository, including the ones we would not have picked. If business logic currently lives in controllers, new controllers match it until you decide otherwise. We will make the argument for moving it; we will not stage a quiet refactor inside a feature branch.
  • Scoped before it startsNobody types until the estimate is signed off, and that estimate names the migrations, the queued jobs, the screens and the tests. There is no argument six weeks later about whether queue infrastructure was included: it was either on the list or it was not.
  • One team across the stack50 or more products shipped, 6 countries, 99.9% uptime across the systems under our care. A Laravel engineer here sits beside the colleagues writing Livewire and Vue interfaces, Shopify stores and AI copilots, so when the application needs something that is not PHP you are not out finding another supplier.

What you get

Every engagement includes these, in writing, before work starts.

  • A working Laravel application in your repository, with a README that runs it locally
  • Migrations and seeders that build the database cleanly from empty, on any machine
  • API documentation covering every endpoint, its inputs, its responses and its error codes
  • A Pest or PHPUnit suite over the critical paths, running in a pipeline on every push
  • Deployment configuration, queue and scheduler setup, with secrets handled separately
  • A recorded handover session covering the architecture and the parts that need care

Who this is for

Three situations where this is the right call.

A Laravel app whose author has left

It still serves traffic, but the person who chose its structure has gone and the reasoning went with them. Nobody remaining can say why half the logic sits in a trait, so every ticket carries a risk premium. Someone has to read the codebase properly, write the map, and turn the next change into a decision instead of a gamble.

A build with a date and no engineer to spare

Sprint commitments are set and the launch date is fixed, but the one engineer who genuinely knows Laravel is booked on something else. You want a pair of hands that already knows where Eloquent relations go wrong, and that does not need weeks of onboarding first.

An old PHP system holding the business up

A system written years ago in plain PHP or an unsupported framework still runs a core part of operations. It needs moving onto Laravel in stages, with the business running throughout, not a rewrite that pauses everything.

Questions

What buyers ask us first.

How much does hiring a Laravel developer through infoloop cost?
Not by the hour. Half an hour on a call, then a written scope with a duration and a single figure attached, and the figure holds. What moves it: which Laravel release you sit on, whether the codebase follows the framework's conventions or has grown a private dialect of its own, how much domain logic is buried in controllers that will need unpicking, whether there is an admin layer to build in Filament or Nova, and whether queue workers and a scheduler have to be stood up as infrastructure rather than merely written. An application that reads like the documentation is quick to extend. One where every request handler has swollen into a catch-all is not. Say what the thing does and you will hear a range on the call, never after a paid discovery stage.
What happens after the Laravel application goes live?
Two routes. Take everything and run it in-house: repository, deployment configuration, the recorded walkthrough, credentials for anything we created. Or stay on the managed retainer, which for a Laravel application mostly means watching the parts that fail silently. A worker that died and never came back throws no error page anywhere; the queue simply stops draining, and nobody finds out until a customer asks where their invoice went. Framework and package updates get applied while each one is still a small step. A monthly note records what was touched. Handing over and walking away is how a codebase drifts several releases behind without anyone ever choosing that.
Can your developer work inside our existing team and codebase?
Yes, and it is the normal arrangement. Your repository, your branch naming, your reviewers, your board, your standup. What makes a Laravel codebase interesting is that the framework holds strong opinions and teams differ in how closely they keep to them. Some projects validate in form requests and dispatch through action classes; others do all of it inside the controller. We match whichever pattern is already there so the codebase stays internally consistent, and we tell you plainly what the current one costs in testability. Changing it is work you can commission deliberately, not something that appears uninvited in a feature branch. If you would sooner we built a module separately and delivered it finished, that works too.
Do you work with Livewire, Inertia, Vue and older Laravel versions?
Yes. Blade on its own, Blade with Livewire, or Inertia driving Vue or React. The choice should follow what your team can maintain, not what is fashionable this year. Older releases are perfectly fine to work in, and plenty of useful applications sit a few majors behind where an upgrade is not the first thing worth funding. For admin, Filament and Nova both earn their place when the screens are largely CRUD, and we skip them when a workflow is odd enough that a hand-built Blade page is simply less code. What we will not do is pretend an upgrade is free. If you are on an unsupported release, we price the jump and the cost of postponing it, and the decision stays yours.
How do you handle security, authentication and data protection?
Through the framework rather than around it. Gates and policies hold the authorisation rules, so a permission question has one answer in one file instead of six answers spread across controllers. Input is validated in form requests before it reaches a handler. Models declare what is fillable, so a stray field in a payload cannot quietly set an admin flag. Eloquent's bindings keep query building out of string concatenation. Rate limiting goes on the routes that invite abuse. Secrets stay in the environment, never in version control, and the framework and its packages get patched on a schedule instead of when something breaks. Where personal or payment data is involved, we say during scoping what that adds rather than treating it as an extra you buy later.
How quickly can a Laravel developer start, and what do you need from us?
Days, not a recruitment cycle, as soon as the scope is signed. What we need in return: repository access, any private Packagist credentials, a .env plus either a staging environment or permission to stand one up, keys for the third-party services the app integrates with, and one named human who can settle arguments about intended behaviour when the implementation and the expectation disagree. That last item sets the pace more than any technical factor does. A first week spent waiting on access is a first week lost, so it is worth settling who grants each of those before the start date rather than after it.

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