A dedicated Laravel developer, or a small team, who understands why Laravel is built the way it is. They are not translating from another framework as they go. Each developer is vetted on real Eloquent models and real queues before they see yours. They work inside your artisan console, release pipeline and stand-ups. You can scale up or down monthly without a hiring cycle. You meet the developer who would look after your queues before anything is signed.
Interview before signing · Scale monthly
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Work together on a real brief for up to 14 days, then decide whether to scale.
Hiring a Laravel developer through PixelCrayons gets you a vetted Eloquent and Blade specialist inside your codebase. They work in your artisan console, queue workers and release process. That covers Eloquent relationships, Blade with Livewire or Inertia, and tests in Pest or PHPUnit. A named coordinator and escalation contact back them. You interview the developer first and scale monthly.
Real projects for real clients, with results we can show.
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This is not a general PHP developer who picked up Laravel along the way. Their daily work is Eloquent models, queued jobs and Blade components. And they do it in an app that already has users.
Practical notes on the week, the interview and the handover, for teams already running Laravel live.
A Laravel developer on a live app splits the week between features and upkeep. They build the feature in the ticket, with a form request, a policy and a feature test alongside it. They check failed jobs in Horizon or the queue logs. They find out why jobs failed rather than retrying them blindly. They review Telescope or the query log for pages that got slower. They keep Composer packages current and read the upgrade notes before a framework update. And they write migrations that can roll back, because sooner or later one will need to.
Ask how they would find out why a page got slow after a release. Good answers mention eager loading, query logging and checking what a relationship really runs. Ask when they would put work on a queue, and what happens if a job fails halfway. Listen for jobs that are safe to run twice, retries and a process for failed jobs. Ask how they would upgrade an app several major versions behind. A strong candidate plans it in steps, with tests at each one. Ask where business logic that does not belong in a controller should live. Clear, reasoned views on Laravel's conventions are a good sign.
Give them access to your code, plus a seeded local database or a cleaned copy of the live one. Share the staging settings securely, not pasted into chat. Give access to Forge, Vapor or whatever releases the app, and to the queue dashboard. List the scheduled commands and what each one does. These are often undocumented and quietly important. Note any packages you have forked or patched. Share the current Laravel and PHP versions and any upgrade deadlines. Finally, decide which changes must ship with tests, and who reviews them.
Some briefs ask for a Laravel developer when the real issue lies elsewhere. A slow app on an overloaded server needs hosting or DevOps help first. A front end that has outgrown Blade may need a React or Vue specialist alongside. A Laravel developer stretched across both is not the answer. A database with years of growth and no indexes may need a review before any feature work. Some apps are mostly custom PHP, with Laravel added later. They need an honest check before anyone agrees to maintain them. Describe what hurts, not only which framework it runs on.
We sign an NDA and you tell us about your app, its tech stack and the gap.
We put forward the developer whose track record fits. You interview them directly, before anything is signed. If the fit is wrong, we propose someone else.
You confirm the scope, the payment and the access we need. Nothing starts before this.
You grant code and environment access. They review your models and migrations, then join your stand-ups.
Bring in a second Laravel developer when the ticket queue grows. Drop back when it shrinks. You resize month by month, with no hiring decision.
You make requests, give approvals and see the weekly review in your Prism workspace. Each decision is written down with the result it was meant to bring. See how Prism runs the work →
Meet the people who will do the work before you sign
Hiring a developer on your own gets you their skills. Hiring a Laravel developer through a company that delivers this work every day adds cover and review. That keeps your queues running when life happens.
Every developer in our team has shipped work inside live Laravel apps before yours. That work met our own delivery standards and was reviewed weekly. The queues really ran and the migrations really rolled back. A track record tells you more than reciting the docs. It shows what will happen in your queue workers, not just in an interview room.
Alongside your developer you get a named coordinator, an escalation contact and a second developer named for your app. The second developer is briefed on your work from day one. They follow the model notes and queue setup the first developer writes down. If the first developer is away or leaves, the second steps in without a slow start. A stranger never reads your README cold. A lone freelancer cannot offer that. A single in-house hire has no one to hand over to at all.
Your code, your artisan console, your ticket system, your release process. Forge, Vapor or whatever you already run. Dedicated means shipping through your branches and release process. Tickets never get thrown over a wall into someone else's queue.
You get a weekly written review in Prism, tied to what shipped. Pull requests are reviewed against a written standard. Security and package patches are logged, not assumed. If you ever question what a month bought, the merged pull requests and patch log answer before we do.
Hiring in-house still makes sense when your Laravel app needs a permanent, full-time owner at the centre of the business. We will tell you when that is the case. This page covers every other case.
| Hiring it yourself | Through PixelCrayons | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to a working developer | A full recruiting cycle: sourcing, Laravel interviews, notice periods and onboarding | Eligible engagements can typically start two to three business days after scope, payment and required access are confirmed |
| Vetting | CV checks and a take-home Laravel test: you find out the truth once they are in your queue workers | A track record on real Laravel apps, held to our own standards and reviewed weekly |
| Management work | All yours: sprint planning, code review, queue monitoring and cover | A named PM handles the admin; you review pull requests and set priorities, not cover gaps |
| Scaling | A new hiring cycle each way: months to find a Laravel specialist, severance to let one go | Resize monthly: add a developer or step down after a conversation |
| Risk when it doesn't work | A poor hire works in a live queue until someone catches it, then an exit | If the fit is wrong, we propose someone else; they get the migration history, not a blank start |
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Know who coordinates your engagement, who owns the work and how to escalate an issue.
All engagements. Roles may be combined and vary with your engagement.
Each one says where it applies and links to its full terms.
For eligible managed specialists. Up to 14 calendar days or 80 logged working hours, whichever comes first. End within the trial and pay nothing for eligible trial hours. Continue beyond it and those hours are billed at the agreed rate. Unpaid trial work remains ours if you stop.
Eligible managed-specialist roles only, one trial per customer. Not offered for AI, chatbot, prompt, automation, API-integration or QA work. Brand and graphic designers, brand strategists, video editors, content writers, copywriters and content marketers start with a paid pilot.
Full termsAt least four hours a day inside your core working hours. Two hours plus a daily written handover for the US West Coast.
Managed specialists only; not a staffing promise for project teams.
Full termsYour materials remain yours. Bespoke deliverable rights, licences and handover are agreed before work starts.
All engagements.
Full termsKnow who coordinates your engagement, who owns the work and how to escalate an issue.
All engagements. Roles may be combined and vary with your engagement.
Full termsA freelancer can be the right choice for a single, well-defined task. We are set up for work that needs an accountable team: a named coordinator, delivery reviewed by QA and a senior lead before release, and continuity arrangements written into the engagement. Confidentiality, ownership and escalation terms are agreed in writing before work starts.
Your engineers work at least four hours a day inside your core working hours. We set the window with you before the engagement starts and hold it for as long as the engagement runs. For the US West Coast the live overlap is two hours each morning, with a written handover at the end of every Indian day. We do not run night shifts: engineers who work nights leave quickly, and keeping the same people on your team matters more to us than a longer overlap.
For eligible managed specialists, yes: up to 14 calendar days or 80 logged working hours, whichever comes first. Stop within it and eligible trial hours are free; continue and they're billed at the agreed rate. Unpaid trial work stays ours. Project work and other roles get a paid pilot with scope, acceptance criteria, duration and fee agreed first.
Cancellation, notice and any renewal terms are written into your proposal or statement of work before you accept it. If an engagement ends early, we hand over completed, paid-for work and list any unfinished work separately. For an eligible specialist trial, you can stop within the trial window and pay nothing for eligible trial hours.
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A take-home Laravel test rarely shows what happens once the developer is in your queue workers. Our vetting tests the parts of a live app that fail quietly.
Once we have a complete brief, we confirm when your proposal will arrive. You interview the developer before anything is signed. Eligible engagements can typically start two to three business days after scope, payment and required access are confirmed. If your queues or tests have gaps, expect the first fortnight to go on understanding them.
An NDA comes first, then access to your code, environments and releases. Next comes a written review of your models, migrations and queue setup, so you see exactly what they found. The first sprint's priorities are agreed before anything ships. From week one they join your stand-ups. So onboarding runs through your sprint process rather than beside it.
They work with whichever your app already uses. Most of our work is Blade with Livewire, or Inertia with Vue or React on top. The developer works inside that choice rather than arguing for a different one. The exception is when you ask for a view on the tech stack.
Hiring through us adds cover and support that a direct hire lacks. A dedicated Laravel developer hired directly brings their skills and nothing else. Through us, they come with a named coordinator, an escalation contact and a named second developer briefed from day one. If you really need a project rather than a person, we will say so on the first call.
Every pull request is reviewed against a written standard. It is released through Forge, Vapor or your existing pipeline. You get a weekly review in Prism on what shipped and what is next. Security and package patches are logged with the reasons. Agencies placing a Laravel developer on a client app get that reporting in their own templates.
Tell us early and we will propose someone else; that is a normal step. The new developer gets the model notes, migration history and open pull requests. So a switch costs days, not a restart. The proposal names the second Laravel developer who would cover your queues and migrations. It also says whether that cover is in the monthly rate.
Tell us about your app and the gap. Get a shortlist, and interview the developer who would actually write the code. If you really need a project rather than a person, we will say so on the first call.
Interview before signing · Scale monthly
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