Production Laravel Engineering for Backend & SaaS Platforms
Senior Laravel engineering for production applications. Multi-tenant SaaS, REST and GraphQL APIs, B2B platforms, complex business logic. OWASP-compliant security and PSR-12 code discipline by default.
Why Laravel for serious applications
Laravel powers some of the largest production applications in the world. The ecosystem has matured into a complete backend engineering platform โ Sanctum for auth, Horizon for queues, Reverb for WebSockets, Vapor for serverless, Forge for orchestration, Pulse for monitoring.
Most teams running PHP in 2026 are stuck on Laravel 8 or worse. We engineer on current versions with modern PHP โ enums, readonly properties, JIT-optimized code paths. This sits within our broader web development practice.
Where we engineer advantage in Laravel.
Custom Application Engineering
Greenfield Laravel apps from domain modeling to production.
API Development
REST and GraphQL with Sanctum, OpenAPI specs, versioning.
SaaS Platform Engineering
Multi-tenant, billing, team management, RBAC.
Admin Panels & Internal Tools
Filament, Nova, or custom. Built for the workflow.
Full-Stack with Inertia/Livewire
Laravel monoliths with React or Vue tightness.
Legacy Modernization
CodeIgniter, Symfony 1.x, hand-rolled PHP โ modern Laravel.
Stack we ship with.
| Layer | Default stack |
|---|---|
| Framework | Laravel 11.x on PHP 8.3 LTS. We stay one major behind only when client constraints force it. |
| Architecture | Modular monolith by default. Service classes for business logic, action classes for one-off operations, repositories only when justified. |
| Database | MySQL 8 for most projects. PostgreSQL where clients need advanced types, JSON queries, or full-text search at scale. |
| Queues | Horizon on Redis for production. Database queues for simpler internal tools where Redis overhead isn't justified. |
| Auth | Sanctum for SPAs and mobile APIs, Fortify for traditional web sessions, Socialite for OAuth providers. |
| Testing | Pest for new projects, PHPUnit for legacy. Feature tests over unit tests. We aim for coverage of business-critical paths, not lines. |
| Deployment | Laravel Forge for managed VPS, GitHub Actions for CI. Zero-downtime deploys via Envoyer or atomic rsync swap for client-hosted setups. |
| Monitoring | Sentry for application errors. Telescope for local debugging. Server-level monitoring via the host (Forge / DigitalOcean Insights). |
How engagements run.
Domain Modeling
Business logic, state machines, data architecture. Output: ERD + ADRs.
Architecture Planning
Service patterns, queue strategy, caching layers, scaling considerations.
Backend Engineering
API + business logic in sprints with continuous testing.
Frontend Integration
Blade, Inertia (Vue/React), Livewire, or decoupled SPA.
Security Hardening & Launch
OWASP audit, performance testing, runbooks, production cutover.
Senior execution, written in.
- Senior Laravel engineers โ deep framework knowledge, modern patterns
- Full-stack capability โ Vue, React, Inertia, Livewire frontends
- Security-first discipline โ OWASP audits before launch, not after a breach
- Modern PHP practices โ PSR-12, static analysis (PHPStan level 8), enums, readonly
- Operational maturity โ deployment automation, monitoring, runbooks from day one
- Source code ownership โ clean, documented, type-hinted, in your repository
Pricing
For typical project ranges, see pricing โ.
Have a Laravel project in mind?
Discovery call to scope domain model and architecture. Senior engineering only.