HIRE A LARAVEL DEVELOPER
A senior PHP/Laravel engineer in your repo, contributing in 15 days. Monthly from $3,375, or buy hours from $45.
NDAs are standard · Your repo, your IP
15 days
From kickoff to merged contributions
$3,375
Retainers from, per month, for 150 hours
Every merge
Reviewed by a senior engineer
Day 1
Your repo, your cloud, your IP
WHAT THEY DO
01
New endpoints, jobs and admin screens, written in the conventions your codebase already uses.
02
Tests around the parts nobody wants to touch, so the next change doesn't break checkout.
03
Find the N+1 queries and missing indexes behind the slow pages, and fix them with before-and-after timings.
04
Emails, exports and third-party calls go onto queues, so a slow provider stops slowing your users.
05
REST endpoints for your web and mobile apps, versioned so old app releases keep working.
06
Payments, CRMs and booking providers that agree with your database, with logs when they don't.
SKILLS & STACK
Working on an older Laravel version? Tell us which one on the call, and we'll plan the upgrade path.
HOW AI MAKES THIS ROLE FASTER
Every engineer on your product works with AI in the loop, on every task. It speeds up the parts of Laravel work that are mostly typing, and a senior engineer reviews every line before merge.
| Step | What AI does | What the engineer checks | The gate it passes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Read the codebase | Maps routes, models and jobs in a legacy app in hours | That the map matches how the app really behaves in production | Senior review on every merge |
| Write tests first | Drafts feature tests around code that has none | That each test fails for the right reason before anything changes | Senior review on every merge |
| Refactor | Proposes the extraction of a 900-line controller into services | Behaviour stays the same, and the tests prove it | Senior review on every merge |
| Migrations & upgrades | Drafts migration scripts and the changes a version bump needs | Data safety, rollback path, and the deploy order | Senior review on every merge |
| Review | Flags likely N+1 queries and missing validation | Every line before merge | Senior review on every merge |
Across 470 open-source pull requests, CodeRabbit found AI-co-authored code carried ~1.7× more major issues and ~2.7× more security defects. That's why nothing merges without a senior review. Client code is never used to train models.
WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER
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from $3,375/month · 150 hours
150 hours a month of your Laravel developer on a backlog we agree with you, with senior review on every merge. The price depends on the role and is confirmed on a 30-minute call.
See the retainer →$45/hour · 20-hour minimum
Buy 20 to 120 hours for scoped work, valid for 12 months. Bigger blocks cost less per hour. Need more than 120? The retainer fits better.
See hour blocks →lead + 1 engineer from $8,000/month
A tech lead plus your Laravel developer inside your repo, your Slack and your sprint rituals. Bigger teams are quoted to fit.
See embedded teams →Most Laravel clients start with a retainer for a backlog, or prepaid hours for an upgrade or a batch of fixes.
HIRING VS. SOCIILABS
| Hiring your own | Working with SociiLabs | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to first contribution | A search, interviews, notice period, then onboarding | Contributing in 15 days |
| If it doesn't work out | 46% of new hires fail within 18 months (Leadership IQ) | We replace the engineer, handover time isn't billed, and you keep the code and history |
| Who reviews the code | Whoever you already have | A senior engineer, on every merge |
| How AI is used | Depends on the person | AI in the loop on every task, behind a review gate |
| Commitment | Salary, benefits, equity | Monthly retainer or a block of hours |
PROOF
0 crashes in 6 months
Booking SaaS
Five years of growth had outgrown a single server running a legacy Laravel backend. Our embedded team of 4 moved it to GCP and Cloud Run with zero-downtime deploys, verified 12+ reporting verticals and reconciled Square payments. Crashes went from weekly to zero in six months, and the engagement has run 12 months.
Read the ZapBook case study →“Arslan understood the requirements from day one and gave great advice on integrating AI into the platform.”
FAQ
Retainers from $3,375 a month for 150 hours. The price depends on the role and is confirmed on a 30-minute call. Prepaid hours start at $45 an hour, from 20 to 120 hours, and an embedded team (a lead plus one engineer) starts from $8,000 a month.
