Laravel applications
Laravel 11+ with Octane, Eloquent + raw SQL where the ORM fights, queue workers (Redis / SQS), Horizon dashboards, scheduled tasks.
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Hire PHP / Laravel engineers · Montreal
Modern PHP 8.3+ and Laravel for production web applications: Octane, Livewire, Inertia, queues, and the operational discipline most PHP shops still skip.
Hiring PHP / Laravel engineers in Montreal
Montreal, Quebec engagements ship with the same seniorPHP / Laravel bench used across every Prosigns delivery. No staff-augmentation, no junior fallback, no SDR routing. The engineers in the proposal are the engineers in production.
Why senior, not contractor
PHP gets dismissed because most PHP code in the wild is shared-host era: global state, no tests, no types, brittle deploy. Modern PHP 8.3+ with Laravel 11 + Octane is a serious production framework: typed properties, readonly classes, strong DI, queue workers, scheduled tasks, and observability that defends an SLO. Prosigns ships PHP as production substrate: typed where it matters, tested in CI, deployed via container with rolling updates, and observed end-to-end.
Senior floor
G6+ minimum
Bench depth
20+ G6/G9 engineers
In production
2018+
Engagement
Outcome-led SOW
Where PHP / Laravel ships
Specific applications of PHP / Laravelwe’ve built and operate. Every example below maps to a real engagement, not a bullet on a stack-card.
Laravel 11+ with Octane, Eloquent + raw SQL where the ORM fights, queue workers (Redis / SQS), Horizon dashboards, scheduled tasks.
Inertia + Vue/React for SPA UIs without an API layer, Livewire for server-rendered interactive UIs, Filament for admin panels.
REST + GraphQL APIs with Sanctum / Passport auth, OpenAPI contracts, idempotency keys, per-route SLOs, distributed tracing.
Custom plugins, headless WP via REST/GraphQL, ACF Pro, Bedrock + Sage. Where WordPress fits. Content-led sites. We ship it well.
PHP 5.6 / 7.x → 8.3+, framework jumps (CodeIgniter / CakePHP / Zend → Laravel / Symfony), removing global state and bringing types.
Octane (Swoole / RoadRunner / FrankenPHP) for sub-50ms responses, Redis caching layers, opcache tuning, Horizon for queue-throughput dashboards.
Stack depth
Frameworks, libraries, and runtime tools the bench has shipped in production. Not a CV-skim, a working depth.
Frameworks
Runtime + perf
Data + persistence
Queues + workers
Quality + ops
Engagement models
We don’t bill hourly contractors. Engagements run against outcomes, choose the shape that matches the work.
See engagement modelsFixed-scope
When the deliverable is clear and the scope is bounded: an MVP, a migration, a discrete platform build. Senior engineering against a written outcome, not against a body count.
Embedded squad
When the work is product-shaped and the cadence is continuous. A senior pod (engineering + design + PM as needed) embedded into your team, with the practice lead co-piloting from HELM.
Managed services
When the system is running and needs ongoing engineering ownership: operations, SLO defense, release management, security and compliance evidence. Monthly retainer against a published SLA.
Selected work
Education
Replaced a 9-year-old CodeIgniter monolith with Laravel 11 + Octane (Swoole). Inertia + Vue for the SPA layer. Horizon-managed queues for video processing pipelines. Migrated 12M users with parallel-run reconciliation.
Duration · 8 months
Brief us
Reply < 4 business hoursFive fields. Goes straight to the practice lead, not an SDR. We’ll reply with a senior engineer’s read on fit, scope, and the engagement model that suits the work.
FAQ
Everything below also appears in the proposal and the SOW: no surprises after signing.
PHP 8.3+ with Laravel 11 is a genuinely productive, well-typed runtime for web applications. The language has changed substantially: typed properties, readonly classes, enums, attributes, JIT. For workloads that fit (content-led, transactional web apps, admin tooling), it's faster to ship and cheaper to operate than equivalent Node or Python in many cases.
Yes, with discipline. The persistent-worker model means stateful bugs that don't show up in classic PHP-FPM. We test for those explicitly. RoadRunner and FrankenPHP are increasingly the production picks; Swoole is mature for the right workloads.
Engineering-led delivery. We don't bill hourly contractors against your JIRA board. Every engagement runs against a defined outcome with a senior engineer accountable from kickoff to operating cutover. If you genuinely need staff-aug, discrete bodies, your management, hourly rates, we'll be honest and route you to a partner that fits.
G6 minimum (six-plus years in their craft) on every billable hour. Department leads are G9 or G10. We don't flex juniors onto the bench mid-sprint, we don't subcontract to delivery centers, and we don't dilute senior rates with mixed staffing. The bench in the proposal is the bench in production.
Three engagement models published at /engagement-models/. Fixed-scope for defined deliverables, embedded squads for ongoing product work, managed services for steady-state operations. Rates depend on seniority, engagement length, and region. Discovery + scoping conversation is free; SOWs are written against deliverables, not bodies.
Senior-only across Dallas, Doha, Lahore, and Islamabad. We staff against the engagement's needs (timezone, language, regulatory frame), not against arbitrary regional preferences. Most engagements run with a US/EU-aligned core and a follow-the-sun extended bench when the workload warrants it.
Yes. We name the engineers in the SOW, attach their profiles, and they're on the kickoff. We don't bait-and-switch with senior reviewers and junior execution. If a named engineer needs to roll off the engagement (rare), we surface a replacement from the same seniority tier with explicit handoff.
Talk to a PHP / Laravel lead
Bring the workload: we’ll bring a senior engineer plus the practice lead most relevant to the work. 30 minutes, no obligation, no junior reps.