Hire PHP Developers

Typed properties, enums, attributes, strict types, Composer discipline and a framework used the way its maintainers intended. The gap between PHP as it is written today and PHP as it was written a decade ago is the gap we screen for.

We match on the framework you actually run. A Symfony developer dropped into a Laravel codebase costs you weeks; asking the question at the briefing stage costs you a minute.

Most PHP work is not greenfield. Our developers are used to inheriting systems with no tests, mixed conventions and business rules that live only in the code, and improving them without breaking the parts that pay the bills.

PHP is one of the deepest talent pools we recruit from, so we typically present pre-vetted candidates within days and onboard within one to two weeks.

PHP work usually drags in a front end, a queue worker and a deployment pipeline. Vue, React, MySQL, Redis, Docker and CI can come from the same team rather than a second supplier.

Developers work exclusively on your product, follow your review standards and join your ceremonies. Devs-Hive handles employment, payroll, taxes and retention in the background.

For common PHP requirements we typically present pre-vetted candidates within a few days and onboard within one to two weeks. Narrower briefs — a specific commerce platform, or PHP alongside a particular industry domain — take longer to source, and we keep you informed while we search.

Yes. We treat them as different skills, because they are. Tell us the framework, the major version and whether the codebase follows its conventions or has grown its own, and we will shortlist accordingly rather than sending you generic PHP CVs.

Yes, and that describes a large share of the PHP work we take on. The approach is to add tests around the behaviour that must not change before touching anything, then refactor in small, reviewable steps. It is slower in the first weeks and considerably faster after that.

Yes, when it is engineering work — custom plugins, custom themes, performance and caching, headless front ends, integrations with an ERP or a payment provider. If what you need is a marketing site assembled from off-the-shelf plugins, a specialist agency will serve you better than a development team.

Often, yes. Laravel and Symfony applications are frequently paired with Blade, Twig, Livewire, Inertia or Vue, and many of our PHP developers are comfortable across that boundary. For a design-led interface, adding a dedicated front-end engineer alongside them gives a better result.

Yes. You interview every candidate and make the final call, including any code review exercise or pairing session you normally run. We only present engineers we would put on our own projects.

Devs-Hive employs them and handles HR, payroll, taxes and retention. You manage their day-to-day work directly, exactly as you would with in-house staff.