Hire Senior
PHP Developers

Looking to hire senior PHP developers without agency overhead or ramp-up theatre? You've found the team. Experienced PHP developers with 35+ combined years delivering production systems across FinTech, iGaming, MedTech, Transportation, B2B SaaS, AI & Agentic systems.

  • Deep backend architecture, microservices & payment integrations
  • European base — US & AU timezone overlap
  • Architecture ownership, not ticket-taking — first PR in 1 week
35+
Years combined PHP experience
9
Industries shipped to production
10+
Payment gateways integrated
US & AU
Timezones overlap
1 week
To first PR in your codebase

Let's Solve
Your Bottleneck

Real track record across FinTech, MedTech, Marketing and B2B SaaS. Book a 15-min intro call — tell us where you're stuck.

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Technical Stack

Core
PHP Symfony Laravel Yii Phalcon Microservices RESTful APIs GraphQL Docker CI/CD Redis RabbitMQ
Databases
PostgreSQL MySQL MongoDB ClickHouse Elasticsearch Doctrine ORM
Infra
Jenkins GitHub Actions AWS Azure Google Cloud Hetzner Nginx NewRelic Sentry
Frontend
React TypeScript Vue.js Node.js HTML5 / CSS3 Twig
Payments
Stripe Braintree CoinsFlow HitPay Paddle Crypto & Fiat

Domain Experience

💳
FinTech
Senior PHP developers for consumer lending, credit registries, compliance-first APIs, Stripe & Braintree integrations.
🎰
iGaming / Betting
Casino & sportsbook backends, PragmaticPlay API, crypto + fiat wallets, high-concurrency at scale.
🎓
EdTech
Language learning SaaS, K-12 e-learning, OneRoster LMS integrations, GraphQL APIs. US market.
🛒
E-commerce
Multi-vendor marketplaces, subscription billing, real-time inventory, async queue architecture.
⚙️
B2B SaaS
PHP developer expertise in insurance broker platforms, supply chain SaaS, multi-tenant marketing automation and business process automation.
✈️
Travel & Transportation
Passenger rights automation, booking engines, fleet management, real-time ride dispatch & driver tracking — 100k+ rides/day at peak.
📧
Marketing Tech
Email marketing SaaS, millions of sends/day, Elasticsearch delivery, AWS Lambda workers.
🏥
MedTech
Medical facility tracking system — workflow analysis, risk rate statistics and reports.
🤖
AI & Agentic
LLM integrations, agentic workflow backends, OpenAI & Claude API, RAG pipelines and AI-augmented systems.

Projects

01
iGaming Platform
iGaming
Microservices backend, multi-payment gateway (crypto + fiat), PragmaticPlay casino API integration, NewRelic performance monitoring, memory leak identification
LaravelLumenSymfony PostgreSQLClickHouseRabbitMQJenkinsNewRelic
02
FinTech Lending Platform
FinTech · Consumer loans
Long-term consumer loans · Monolith-to-microservices migration, async queue processing, credit registry integrations, full TDD coverage, health monitoring
SymfonyLaravelRabbitMQ RedisKibanaGrafanaSentry
03
Marketing Automation SaaS
MarTech · Team Lead / CTO role
Multi-brand email marketing platform · System architecture & technical roadmap, Elasticsearch-powered delivery engine, AWS Lambda serverless workers, CI/CD pipelines
LaravelVue.jsPostgreSQL ElasticsearchRedisAWS LambdaDocker
04
Language Learning Platform
EdTech · Interactive courses
Interactive courses + native speaker sessions · System architecture design, GraphQL & REST APIs, MongoDB schema design, AWS cloud integrations, test-driven development
PHP 8SymfonyMongoDB GraphQLRedisAWSCI/CD
05
Flight Compensation Platform
Travel · Passenger rights automation
Passenger claims automation · Full-stack microservices, DB query optimisation, custom parsers for airline data aggregation, Vue.js frontend, RabbitMQ inter-service messaging
SymfonyVue.jsMySQL RabbitMQDockerJenkins
06
E-Learning System
EdTech · Solution Architect role
National K-12 e-learning platform · Solution Architect & senior developer, 100% backend test coverage, OneRoster LMS integrations, microservices, React frontend
LaravelPimcoreMicroservices PostgreSQLElasticsearchReactDocker

Why Our Team

Typical offshore / agency DMexec
Architecture Mid/junior mix. Seniors review only — rarely hands-on.
100% senior. Architecture ownership, not ticket-taking.
AI tooling Ad-hoc or policy-blocked. No measurable velocity gain.
Daily use of Claude Code, Cursor & Copilot. +30% faster delivery.
Cost vs. US market 10–30% savings. Junior-heavy teams inflate headcount.
40–60% less than US market. Senior-only. No padding with juniors.
Hiring cost Recruiter fees 15–25% of salary. Weeks of interviews before any output.
$0 recruiting cost. Direct engagement — contributing from week one.
Contract overhead Benefits, payroll taxes & equipment add 30–40% on top of base salary.
Fixed monthly rate. 0 extras — no benefits, no payroll taxes, no equipment.
Compliance Add-on or afterthought. Requires separate QA pass.
GDPR-aware by default. Proven in FinTech, insurance, payments.
Time to first PR 2–4 weeks ramp-up. Onboarding theatre before output.
First production commit in 1 week. No ramp-up theatre.

FAQ

Our PHP developers work primarily in Laravel and Symfony, with deep experience in Yii2, WordPress/WooCommerce, and custom MVC architectures. We cover PHP 7.x through PHP 8.3 and can modernize legacy codebases to current standards.

First production pull request within 1 week of contract signature. We read your codebase before day one — no onboarding theatre, no trial sprints.

Fixed monthly rate per engineer — no recruiter fees, no payroll taxes, no equipment costs. The rate varies by seniority and engagement scope. Reach out and we'll give you a straight number.

Yes — inheriting and stabilizing legacy PHP systems is a core part of what we do. We audit the codebase, identify the risk areas, and modernize incrementally without breaking what's in production.

Yes. We've shipped PHP backends for FinTech, iGaming, and MedTech platforms handling millions of transactions — with GDPR and PCI-DSS compliance baked into architecture, not bolted on after.

Marketplaces match you with vetted individuals. We give you a PHP team that has shipped together — same code standards, same review culture, zero integration risk between engineers.

Month-to-month. No lock-in, no minimum beyond the first month. We'd rather earn your continued engagement than hold you to a clause.

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