PHP Services for Product and SaaS Teams

Outsource PHP and Laravel for SaaS and govtech teams. PHP 8 upgrades, Horizon queues, WordPress at scale, and squads with security discipline.

We use the Queue Horizon Test in discovery to decide whether your next increment needs a fixed-scope project, a dedicated squad, or embedded specialists inside your rituals. Typical stacks include PHP 8.3, Laravel 11, Horizon, Redis, PostgreSQL, Pest, OWASP ASVS.

Reviewed by Javier Uanini, Founder and CEO, Siblings Software. Last reviewed 2026-06-16.

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What this service covers

We ship PHP work where framework upgrades, queue reliability, and security debt cannot wait for a rewrite pitch.

Laravel product delivery

Domain-driven modules, API resources, policies, and Pest tests with CI gates on every pull request.

Modernization and upgrades

PHP 8 migrations, Laravel version jumps, and dependency audits with parity tests on hot importers.

Queues and async work

Horizon-backed jobs, idempotency keys, dead-letter handling, and dashboards ops can read.

WordPress at scale

Custom plugins, multisite governance, and caching when marketing and product share a PHP stack.

Who this is for

Govtech and regulated SaaS

Procurement deadlines need PHP 8 proof and OWASP-aligned importers, not slide decks.

Marketplaces on Laravel

CSV imports, payouts, and webhooks fail silently under peak harvest or enrollment seasons.

Teams maintaining WordPress plus Laravel

You need one partner who respects both stacks without forcing a rewrite.

CTOs with Horizon firefighting

Queue latency blocks releases and internal hires have not stabilized ops.

How delivery works

  1. Discovery (3 to 5 days). Scope, risks, access, and the Queue Horizon Test verdict on engagement shape.
  2. Team assembly (5 to 10 days). You interview engineers before sprint one. Replacements handled if fit is wrong.
  3. Sprint zero. CI, environments, observability, and definition of done aligned with your team.
  4. Two-week sprints. Demos, retros with named action owners, and shippable increments.
  5. Handoff. Runbooks, ADRs, and paired sessions. Optional retainer for audits or seasonal scale.

Team composition

Laravel pod (4 seats)

PHP tech lead, two senior Laravel engineers, QA on API and importer contracts.

Modernization squad (6 seats)

Adds platform engineer for Horizon and Redis tuning and part-time security review.

Program engagement (8 seats)

Upgrade program plus importer rewrite with dedicated release manager for RFP milestones.

Pricing and engagement models

Fixed-scope PHP modernization programs typically land USD 15K to 120K for ten to eighteen weeks. Dedicated Laravel squads run USD 12K to 60K per month. Staff augmentation for senior PHP engineers runs USD 4K to 9K per month per person.

Compare PHP staff augmentation, dedicated PHP team, PHP sibling services, web development outsourcing.

Comparison with freelancers, in-house hiring, and staff augmentation

Freelancers fit one endpoint. Offshore shops quote low rates but miss queue ops. PHP outsourcing wins when upgrades, importers, and security evidence must land before a procurement clock runs out.

Example project: Harvestline Co-op

Composite illustrative scenario based on common PHP outsourcing patterns.

Harvestline Co-op upgraded to PHP 8.3 and Laravel 11, rebuilt a CSV co-op payout importer with idempotent Horizon jobs, and passed a state RFP security questionnaire without stopping farmer onboarding.

  • Horizon job failure rate at peak harvest: 6.8% to 0.4%
  • Importer wall time on 400k rows: 52m to 11m
  • OWASP scan critical findings: 9 to 1 before RFP submission
  • PHP 8.3 migration: completed in nine sprints with zero payout blackout

Explore published work in our case studies. Authoritative reference: PHP documentation.

Risks and how we reduce them

Silent queue failures

Dead-letter queues and alerting ship before importer rewrites, not after.

Upgrade big bangs

Framework jumps run on parity tests with rollback branches per module.

Plugin debt on WordPress

Custom plugins get owners and semver policy before new marketing features.

Security questionnaire gaps

ASVS mapping and evidence collection start in sprint zero.

Frequently Asked Questions

When domain logic is sound, tests exist on hot importers, and procurement dates forbid a rewrite.

Yes, with separate backlogs so marketing velocity does not destabilize product APIs.

Queue partitioning, backoff policies, and dashboards tied to business hours before season starts.

We map controls to OWASP ASVS and produce evidence from CI, not manual screenshots.

Fixed-scope milestones with importer parity tests or a dedicated squad if legal copy changes weekly.

Staff augmentation in five to ten business days. Squads in one to two weeks after access.

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