Hire Laravel developers expertly trained on AI and product thinking
Hire dedicated Laravel developers from a senior bench built and run by a four-time tech founder. Since 2018, Full Scale has staffed senior PHP and Laravel engineers in the Philippines for SaaS, fintech, e-commerce, and healthcare teams. Every engineer is pre-vetted on real Eloquent, Blade, and Laravel architecture problems and ready to start in as little as 7 days.
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Previously founded VinSolutions ($150M+ exit) and Stackify
We are betting real money on Laravel
Here is the part most people do not know: the only reason Full Scale even exists is that we were looking for PHP developers years ago and ended up hiring some in the Philippines off Upwork. Upwork itself turned into a giant headache. The Filipino Laravel and PHP developers were amazing. That contrast was the wedge that became this company, and Laravel has been at the center of it ever since.
The first time I saw PHP, it was running Nagios and a WordPress site, and to be honest I could not imagine why anyone would build real software with it. Then Facebook did. PHP has changed dramatically since then, and Laravel is the framework that turned it into a serious modern platform with the same conveniences you get from every other popular web stack.
People still ask me whether PHP is dead. The longer I do this, the more confident I get about the answer. At Full Scale Ventures we are building new startups on Laravel today by choice. It ships fast and stays out of our way. Laravel is opinionated, and that is the part the JavaScript world keeps missing. You are not constantly debating which router to pick this quarter or rebuilding because the framework moved on. Either way, Laravel is in great shape and we are betting real money on it.
AI-powered Laravel engineers, trained on Product Driven principles
Most Laravel teams adopting AI are shipping more code without shipping better software. The slop volume climbs, the test suite starts failing for reasons nobody can explain, and engineers whose only skill is typing faster end up costing more in cleanup than they save in keystrokes.
Full Scale Laravel developers are trained on something different: the Product Driven approach from Matt's book, combined with the full modern AI toolkit (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor). They think first, type second, and use AI for the parts where judgment doesn't add value. That combination is rare, and it is what Laravel teams should actually be hiring for in 2026.
Product Driven engineering
Our engineers are trained on the five pillars from Matt's book: Vision, Focus, Clarity, Ownership, and Courage. The result is Laravel developers who push back on bad product decisions, ask whether a ticket should exist before writing the migration, and own the outcome of what ships. They are not order takers.
Read Product Driven, the bookAI as a thinking partner
Every Laravel engineer on our bench works with GitHub Copilot, Claude, and Cursor every day. They use AI to explore options, scaffold the boring parts (resources, requests, migrations), generate Pest tests, and review their own pull requests before a human ever sees them. Judgment stays with the engineer, the grunt work moves to the machine.
AI without product thinking is just a slop machine, and the Laravel engineers I want on my team don't get caught by that. They reason about the model and the request lifecycle before they reach for Copilot, and they use AI for the parts where judgment doesn't matter. That's who we hire and train at Full Scale.
Dedicated Laravel developers, starting at $35 an hour
That rate is fully loaded. You hire a senior Laravel developer in the Philippines who works full-time on your team, and we cover the payroll, benefits, HR, and equipment. The same role hired locally in the US costs $130K to $180K a year, and that gap is what drives most of our clients to call.
- Full-time, dedicated Laravel engineer
- Pre-vetted by senior Laravel reviewers
- Works your hours, your tools, your codebase
- Payroll, HR, equipment, benefits handled by us
- US-based account manager you can escalate to
- Two-week money-back guarantee if it isn't a fit
Full Scale has made the Inc. 5000 five years in a row and is Great Place to Work certified. We have been doing this since 2018, and pricing isn't the only reason teams hire and keep our Laravel developers, it's the easiest reason to call.
Why hiring Laravel developers in the Philippines works
You can also hire dedicated developers in the Philippines across every other stack we staff, with the same vetting bar, retention numbers, and engagement model that Laravel clients get.
English-fluent by default
The Philippines is the third-largest English-speaking country in the world. Standups, code reviews, and customer calls work the way they do with any US team member.
Real time-zone overlap
Most of our Laravel engineers shift their hours toward the US business day, giving 3-4 hours of real-time overlap with East and West Coast teams, so decisions happen live during shared hours rather than crawling through 24-hour async handoffs.
Deep PHP and Laravel talent pool
Cebu and Manila produce tens of thousands of CS and IT graduates a year, and PHP has been one of the country's top three working languages for the better part of two decades. Laravel adoption took off here early.
Cultural alignment with US teams
Filipino engineers grow up on US business norms, US TV, and US tech culture, so agile rituals, direct feedback, and collaborative workflows feel familiar from day one. These teams integrate fast rather than needing constant management.
Writing PHP is not the same as knowing Laravel
Anyone who finished the official Laravel Bootcamp can write a controller. Building a Laravel app that holds up in production requires a different bench entirely. When you outsource Laravel development or hire offshore Laravel developers, this is the gap that decides whether the project ships. Here is what we test for, and what most offshore staffing companies skip.
Architecture knowledge beyond syntax
Junior developers ship features. Senior Laravel engineers reason about service classes, action classes, form requests, and when a repository pattern actually earns its complexity versus when it just gets in the way of Eloquent.
Eloquent that doesn't melt your database
We test for the N+1 query problem, eager loading strategy, chunk processing for large datasets, and when to drop into raw queries or Query Builder. Bad Eloquent code is the single most common cause of Laravel performance problems we see.
Deployment beyond "git pull on the server"
Real Laravel deployment expertise covers Forge, Vapor, Docker, queue workers under Horizon, scheduled tasks, zero-downtime deploys, and observability. Most offshore PHP shops never get past the cPanel mental model.
Legacy upgrades without the breakage
Moving from Laravel 5.x or 6.x to Laravel 11 is more than a composer update. We have run full upgrades on production systems with millions of users, which means we know which packages broke at each major version and how to stage the work.
Security done right
Real security work in Laravel covers Sanctum and Passport auth flows, policies and gates, mass-assignment protection, CSRF, OWASP basics, and secrets management. It isn't a checklist exercise, and we test for engineers who understand the actual attack surface of a production Laravel app.
Production debugging skills
A senior Laravel engineer should be able to read a Telescope trace, profile a slow request with Clockwork or Blackfire, and reason about why a queue worker is stuck. Most offshore PHP developers have never touched these tools.
Hire dedicated Laravel developers for the work that actually matters
Most Laravel hiring conversations skip past the actual project. What kind of Laravel work do you need done? Greenfield SaaS build, an API layer rewrite, a Laravel upgrade, a queue throughput fix that's been open for six months? Because you hire our developers by the engineering hour rather than as a fixed-bid project, they ship across all of it. Here is the Laravel work teams hire our developers for most often.
Custom Laravel application development
Custom Laravel development means greenfield builds on modern Laravel 11 using service classes, action classes, form requests, and queued jobs. We start with a real domain model rather than a CRUD scaffold, so the resulting codebase survives the first 18 months without a rewrite.
Read our offshore PHP guideLaravel SaaS development
Laravel SaaS work is multi-tenant architecture, Cashier for subscription billing, role and permission management, audit logging, and webhook handling. The unglamorous stuff that B2B SaaS lives or dies on. We have shipped Laravel SaaS platforms from seed stage to public scale.
Laravel API development & system integration
We build REST APIs with API Resources, GraphQL via Lighthouse, Sanctum or Passport for auth, and contract testing in CI. Third-party integrations get proper retry logic, idempotency keys, and queued jobs with backoff, which gives you an API layer your downstream consumers don't curse at.
Hire dedicated REST API developersLaravel cloud deployment & DevOps
We deploy Laravel on Forge, Vapor, AWS ECS, and Kubernetes, with Horizon managing the queue layer, Redis as the cache, and Telescope or Sentry for observability. That's the full production stack, with no "we git pulled it" shortcuts.
Legacy Laravel upgrades and PHP modernization
We run Laravel upgrade projects from Laravel 5.x, 6.x, or 8.x to Laravel 11 without downtime. We know which third-party packages break at each major version, where the deprecated facades sneak in, and how to stage the cutover so business doesn't stop. We have done this on systems with millions of users, and we also handle CodeIgniter to Laravel migrations on the same bench.
Hire dedicated CodeIgniter developersLaravel performance & debugging
Our Laravel performance work covers Clockwork and Blackfire for request profiling, Telescope for production tracing, Horizon for queue throughput, and Octane when raw response time matters. These are skills most offshore Laravel shops have never developed, so hire us when your app is slow and nobody knows why.
Eight Laravel specializations, one staffing partner
Most Laravel teams need more than one role. Hire dedicated PHP developers, senior Laravel engineers, Livewire and Inertia specialists, Filament admins, and Laravel DevOps from a single vetted bench. When the codebase you're hiring against is older and runs on a different PHP framework, you can also hire dedicated CodeIgniter developers for legacy maintenance and CI-to-Laravel migrations, or hire dedicated WordPress developers for the publisher side of the PHP world. Mix and match seniorities as the project requires. SaaS teams shipping Laravel often also hire dedicated UX designers from the same bench so the admin UI stops looking like a Bootstrap default.
Backend Laravel Engineers
Senior backend devs handle the controller, service, and Eloquent layers for your application. They work fluently in Laravel 10 and 11, queued jobs, events, and form requests.
Full-Stack Laravel Developers
End-to-end engineers pair Laravel on the backend with Livewire, Inertia.js (with Vue or React), or Blade on the front. They ship features from the migration to the UI without handoffs to a separate team.
Laravel API Engineers
Engineers in this specialization design REST APIs with API Resources, GraphQL via Lighthouse, and Sanctum or Passport auth. They are used to versioned endpoints, contract testing, and clean separation of concerns from day one.
Laravel Cloud & Deployment Engineers
Forge, Vapor, AWS, and Kubernetes specialists own deployment, queue scaling, and the observability stack end-to-end. They write the Terraform too.
Laravel DevOps Engineers
DevOps work on these teams covers CI/CD on GitHub Actions or GitLab, containerization, infrastructure as code, and observability with Telescope, Pulse, and Sentry. They make Laravel releases boring in the good way.
Performance & Security Engineers
When production gets weird, these are the engineers you call. They run Blackfire and Clockwork profiles, queue diagnostics with Horizon, and security audits across Sanctum, policies, and the OWASP top ten.
Filament & Admin Engineers
Internal-tools specialists who ship Filament admin panels, Nova dashboards, and Livewire-based ops UIs. They cut weeks off the build-vs-buy decision for internal software.
Laravel QA & SDET
Our automation engineers write tests in Pest and PHPUnit, browser tests with Dusk, and API contract tests against Laravel services. They build the test pyramid you wish you had.
Laravel expertise tuned to your industry
Having staffed dedicated Laravel developers for nearly a decade, we have placed them into nearly every industry that runs PHP. Domain knowledge cuts onboarding time in half, so we match developers to projects where they have already shipped real code.
SaaS & Scale-ups
B2B SaaS on Laravel is our home turf, with engineers who have shipped multi-tenant architecture, Cashier-based subscription billing, role and permission management, and white-label theming. They have worked on Laravel SaaS platforms at every scale, from seed-stage to public companies.
From Laravel 11 APIs to legacy PHP modernization
Whether you want to hire PHP developers for a greenfield Laravel build, hire Laravel cloud engineers for a Vapor or Forge deployment, outsource Laravel development on a legacy PHP system, or hire dedicated CodeIgniter developers to migrate an older CI codebase to Laravel, the bench covers every layer of the PHP stack. Pick what you need. We will match a Laravel developer fluent in it.
Hire dedicated Laravel developers, two ways
Most clients start with a single dedicated Laravel developer and grow into a full team. Either way, you get full-time engineers who sit on your standups, work your hours, and ship code against your roadmap. Both options are our staff augmentation model at the core: dedicated, long-term engineers embedded in your team rather than freelancers, shared resources, or a project shop on the side. See the full breakdown of how we hire dedicated Laravel developers across every engagement we staff. When the same engineer should own both the Laravel API and the Inertia or Vue frontend, you can hire a full stack developer from the same bench.
Dedicated developer
Full-time, exclusive, sits on your standups.
- Full-time Laravel engineer assigned only to your project
- Works your hours, your tools, your codebase
- Joins your standups, reports to your tech lead
- We handle payroll, HR, equipment, retention
- Two-week money-back guarantee
Dedicated team
Multiple engineers, embedded as a pod.
- 2-10 Laravel engineers staffed together as one pod
- Optional QA, DevOps, and tech lead included
- Operates as a team inside your engineering org
- Scale up or down by a head with 30 days notice
- Account manager you can escalate to in the US
How to hire a dedicated Laravel developer from Full Scale
We skip the 3-6 week recruitment cycle and the cold sourcing entirely. Our bench of remote Laravel developers and PHP engineers in the Philippines is already built and vetted (see exactly how we hire engineers), and every step below has a named owner on our side.
Discovery call
30 minutes with our team. We learn your stack, your roadmap, the seniority level you need, and the version of Laravel you're working in. We don't pitch on the call, we walk through what you actually need from a hire.
Engineer match
We pull 1-3 pre-vetted Laravel engineers from the bench whose skills, seniority, and prior project experience line up with what you described. You see their full profile and their actual project history.
Technical interview
You interview the candidates the way you would interview any senior hire: live coding, system design, Eloquent gotchas, and architectural reviews. Pass anyone you don't believe in.
Contract & onboarding
Sign once. We handle every contract, payroll, equipment, and HR detail in the Philippines so you don't have an offshore entity to manage. You just get a developer.
First commit
Your developer joins your standups, gets repo access, and ships code in their first week. Our delivery managers stay involved to make sure ramp-up doesn't stall.
Full Scale vs the other ways to hire a Laravel developer
Every hiring path has trade-offs. Here is how a dedicated Laravel engineer hired from Full Scale in the Philippines compares against the alternatives most teams consider first when they want to hire Laravel developers.
| Feature | Full Scale | Freelancer / Upwork | Traditional offshore agency | US recruiter / FTE hire |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-vetted senior Laravel bench | ||||
| Time to first hire | 7 days | 1-3 days | 3-6 weeks | 6-12 weeks |
| Dedicated full-time, not shared | ||||
| Senior Laravel and PHP bench since 2018 | ||||
| Sits on your standups, your tools | ||||
| Long-term retention | 93%+ | low | varies | varies |
| Two-week money-back guarantee | ||||
| Handles payroll, HR, equipment | ||||
| US-based account management | n/a | |||
| Typical fully-loaded cost vs US | ~40-50% | varies | ~50-65% | 100% |
Real Laravel engineers, named and vetted
A sample of the Laravel engineers on our team. These are real Full Scale developers working remotely from across the Philippines, and you'll meet candidates like them during your interview round.
A Laravel developer who ships production work with Laravel, Next.js, and React.
A Laravel developer building with Laravel, React, and JavaScript.
A Laravel developer who ships production work with Laravel, jQuery, and Next.js.
A senior Laravel developer with 10 years of experience across Laravel, TypeScript, and Vue.js.
A senior Laravel developer with 17 years of experience across Laravel, Angular, and Nuxt.js.
A Laravel developer who ships production work with Laravel, JavaScript, and React.
The numbers behind a Laravel staffing partner that actually works
From the people we actually staff teams for
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Everything you wanted to know about hiring Laravel developers
Hire a dedicated Laravel developer who has actually shipped Laravel SaaS before
30-minute discovery call to hire dedicated Laravel developers from the Philippines. We'll learn what you're building, walk you through which Laravel developers, PHP engineers, Livewire specialists, or Vapor experts are on the bench, and you'll meet candidates within a week. You won't get pressure or a sales pitch on the call.