Hire full stack Laravel developers who own the feature end to end.
Hire full stack Laravel developers comfortable building backend (Laravel, Eloquent, queues, APIs) and frontend (Livewire, Inertia, Vue, React, Tailwind) for the same feature. No handoff overhead between separate backend and frontend specialists. From $22 per hour. 48 hour start. Official Laravel Partner.
- Vetted full stack Laravel engineers from a 70+ in house team
- Backend (Laravel + MySQL + queues) plus frontend (Livewire / Inertia / Vue / React)
- 48 hour start, 5 day developer replacement clause, NDA signed before scoping
- Three engagement models, source code and IP transfer from commit one
One engineer, both halves of the stack.
Full stack Laravel developer, in plain terms.
A full stack Laravel developer is an engineer comfortable building both backend and frontend of a Laravel application. Backend covers Laravel core, Eloquent, queues with Horizon, third party integrations, and REST or GraphQL APIs. Frontend covers Livewire, Inertia with Vue or React, Blade, Tailwind, Alpine.js, and asset pipeline through Vite.
The defining quality is end to end ownership of a feature, from database migration to user interface, without context handoff between separate backend and frontend specialists. When you hire a full stack Laravel developer from Acquaint Softtech, you get one engineer who can pick up a Jira ticket marked "add invoice export with PDF download" and ship it: schema migration, queue job, PDF generator, controller, Livewire component, Tailwind styling, Pest test, and code review submission. That single engineer ownership is the operational advantage of hiring full stack.
Signals your team needs full stack, not specialists.
Full stack Laravel hiring is not always the right call. For larger teams with established backend and frontend specialisations, hiring specialists can be faster. Here is when a full stack hire is genuinely better.
You are a small team (3 to 8 engineers) where context handoff between backend and frontend specialists creates more overhead than the specialisation saves. You are an early stage startup shipping fast and need engineers who do not block on each other. Your application uses Livewire, where backend and frontend are intentionally interleaved and specialist boundaries do not map cleanly. You need an engineer to own a vertical feature slice (a self contained module with its own routes, controllers, services, views) without a coordination meeting for every change. You are scaling an existing in house team and want extra capacity that absorbs work across both halves rather than creating a new specialist bottleneck.
Both halves of the Laravel stack, by the same engineer.
Every full stack Laravel developer we place ships across both backend and frontend. Here is what that means concretely for the engineer you hire.
Laravel server side ownership
Day to day skills
- Laravel 11 and 12 core, PHP 8.3+ runtime
- Eloquent ORM, query optimisation, migrations
- Horizon queues, scheduled jobs, broadcasting
- REST and GraphQL API design
- Sanctum and Passport authentication
- Third party integration (Stripe, Twilio, Salesforce, etc)
- Pest and PHPUnit test coverage
Laravel client side ownership
Day to day skills
- Livewire 3 components with Alpine.js
- Inertia with Vue 3 or React for SPA frontends
- Blade templates and component design
- Tailwind CSS and Tailwind UI
- Vite asset pipeline and TypeScript
- Filament 3 and Nova 5 admin panels
- Real time UI through Reverb or Pusher
What "full stack" honestly means at Acquaint: a full stack Laravel developer is not equally expert at every part of the stack. They are strong on Laravel backend and competent on at least one frontend approach (Livewire or Inertia), with growing experience in the others. Lead full stack engineers (10 plus years) are typically expert across both. When you hire a full stack Laravel developer, we share the engineer's specific strengths in writing during the shortlist phase, so you know exactly where they are strong and where they will need support.
Two different mental models. Same Laravel underneath.
Inertia and Livewire are the two leading reactive options for Laravel. Both produce excellent applications. The choice depends on your team's strength and the complexity of client side interactivity you need.
Mid Level Full Stack
3 to 5 years of Laravel production experience. Ships features end to end on well defined tickets, writes Pest tests, follows established team conventions. Needs occasional senior support on architectural calls.
Senior Full Stack
5 to 10 years of Laravel production experience. Owns vertical features end to end, makes architectural decisions inside the feature, mentors mid level engineers, leads code review on team pull requests.
Lead Full Stack
10 plus years of Laravel production experience. Owns multiple feature areas, sets architectural direction across the application, runs technical interviews, can act as engineering lead in your team.
Everything a full stack Laravel hire should come with.
Not just an engineer joining your Slack. The full set of operational protections, vetting evidence, and engagement support that make outsourced hiring actually work for your team.
Pre vetted full stack engineers
Every developer has passed written technical tests, live coding interviews, and culture fit screening. We share vetting evidence (code samples, test scores) before you interview.
48 hour engagement start
From contract signing to developer joining your standup in 48 hours. Repository, Slack, and credential access provisioned the same day the contract is countersigned.
5 day developer replacement
If the developer is not the right fit within the first month, we replace the engineer within 5 working days at no extra cost and without recontracting. Continuity preserved on context.
NDA before scoping
NDA signed before any technical conversation, so you can share product context, codebase details, and roadmap freely during the scoping call without legal exposure.
Source code & IP from commit one
Full IP transfer in writing before kick off. Repository is yours, every commit is yours. No licence fees later, no white labelled dependencies, no usage limits.
ISO 27001 compliance
ISO 27001 certified covering access control, secret management, audit trail, and incident response. The compliance posture your security team will need to see before approving an outside vendor.
Delivery lead oversight
Weekly check ins with our delivery lead for the first quarter, covering developer integration, ticket throughput, and quality. Optional escalation route if anything is not working.
Direct engineer access
Direct Slack, email, and standup access to the developer. No "talk to the account manager first" gatekeeping. You manage the engineer the same way you would a direct hire.
Named senior engineer behind every placement.
Full stack hires are matched and supported by senior team leads who have shipped end to end Laravel applications themselves. The judgement on "is this engineer right for this team" comes from people who have led those engagements.
Mitul Patel
Team Lead, Full Stack Laravel
Six steps from scoping to engineer joining.
NDA before the first technical detail is shared. Shortlist in 24 hours. Interview rounds you control. Developer joining your standups in 48 hours from contract signing.
Scoping Call & NDA
30 minute call covering your product stack, team structure, seniority requirements, and engagement model preference. NDA signed before any sensitive details are shared.
Shortlist Within 24 Hours
Three to five vetted full stack Laravel developers matching your stack (Livewire vs Inertia vs Blade), seniority (mid, senior, lead), and timezone overlap. CVs and code samples shared.
Interview Rounds
Technical screen, live coding round on a small Laravel task, and culture fit conversation. You drive the interview process, we coordinate scheduling.
Contract & Engagement Model
Pick Resource Extension, Dedicated Team, or Project Outsourcing. Contract signed with clear scope, deliverables, billing model, and IP transfer terms.
48 Hour Onboarding
Repository, Slack, project management, and credential access provisioned. Developer joins your standups, sprint planning, and code review process within 48 hours of contract.
Delivery & Quality Oversight
Direct developer relationship with optional project manager oversight. 5 day replacement clause active for the first month. Weekly check ins with our delivery lead for the first quarter.
The stack our full stack developers ship with.
Production tested across 1,300 plus Laravel applications since 2007. Mature, supported, and well documented across the Laravel ecosystem.
Laravel core
Frontend choices
Styling & assets
Admin & auth
Async & real time
Testing & QA
A full stack hire engagement we ran.
One detailed snapshot from full stack Laravel hiring engagements across our 1,300 plus delivered projects. Full case studies sit in our portfolio.
Two senior full stack Laravel developers extending a UK SaaS team, shipping 34 features in 11 months
"We needed two senior Laravel engineers to extend our team without the four to six months our local recruiting was taking. Acquaint had two senior full stack developers in our standup within 72 hours. Eleven months in, they have shipped 34 customer facing features alongside our internal team, with no quality regression and timezone overlap that gives us a six hour working overlap every day."
A UK based SaaS platform with 8,000 plus paying customers had four in house Laravel engineers and a 14 month feature backlog. Local recruiting in London was taking four to six months per senior hire, salary expectations exceeded budget, and contractor agencies were charging three times what the budget allowed. The product team needed two additional senior full stack Laravel engineers who could ship customer facing features with minimal handholding, integrate cleanly with the existing team's Slack and sprint cadence, and respect the established Livewire plus Tailwind frontend conventions. Time zone overlap with London was non negotiable.
Two senior full stack Laravel engineers placed within 72 hours of contract signing. Both engineers had 7 plus years of Laravel production experience with strong Livewire and Tailwind backgrounds matching the existing stack. Resource Extension engagement model with direct developer access through the client's Slack, GitHub, and Linear. Daily 30 minute timezone overlap between Ahmedabad and London (3pm to 9pm IST equals 9am to 3pm GMT) gave six hours of working overlap per day. After the first month integration period, both engineers were treated operationally as team members with the same sprint commitments and on call rotation as the internal team. Eleven months in, the two engineers have shipped 34 customer facing features, owned three vertical slices of the application (billing, exports, partner portal), and one was promoted to lead role on the partner portal feature area.
Three ways to hire a full stack Laravel developer.
Most full stack hires run as Resource Extension because clients want direct engineer access. Dedicated Team adds a project manager. Project Outsourcing covers end to end delivery responsibility.
Resource Extension
- Full time, exclusive to your team
- 176 hours per month per engineer
- Direct Slack, GitHub, project management access
- 5 day developer replacement clause
Dedicated Team
- Multiple engineers under one PM
- Weekly delivery reporting
- Quality oversight built in
- Scale team up or down on demand
Project Outsourcing
- Defined scope and timeline
- Project lead, engineers, QA included
- Milestone based billing
- Post launch handover with docs
Questions teams ask before hiring full stack Laravel developers.
Cannot find your answer here? Speak directly to our Head of Business Development. No sales pitch.
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What is a full stack Laravel developer?
A full stack Laravel developer is an engineer comfortable building both backend and frontend of a Laravel application. Backend covers Laravel core, Eloquent, queues with Horizon, third party integrations, and REST or GraphQL APIs. Frontend covers Livewire, Inertia with Vue or React, Blade, Tailwind, Alpine.js, and asset pipeline through Vite. The defining quality is end to end ownership of a feature, from database migration to user interface, without context handoff between separate backend and frontend specialists.
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Why hire full stack Laravel developers from Acquaint Softtech?
Five reasons. Official Laravel Partner status with 17 plus years of production Laravel delivery. 1,300 plus shipped projects across fintech, eCommerce, healthcare, SaaS. 70 plus in house developers vetted through written tests, technical interviews, and live coding rounds. Three engagement models (Resource Extension, Dedicated Team, Project Outsourcing) that fit different team needs. Operational protections: 48 hour start, 5 day developer replacement clause, NDA signed before scoping, ISO 27001 certified, source code IP transfer from commit one.
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How much does it cost to hire a full stack Laravel developer?
Full time dedicated full stack Laravel developers start at $3,200 per month at Acquaint Softtech, or $22 per hour for part time engagements. Senior full stack developers (5 plus years, multi project experience) run $4,500 to $7,500 per month. UK based engagements run from 17 GBP per hour. Project outsourcing with a small full stack team typically starts at $5,000 fixed price for a focused build. Rates do not change mid engagement, and there are no hidden fees. A full breakdown sits on our Laravel development cost page.
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How quickly can I start with a full stack Laravel developer?
Our engagement start time is 48 hours from contract signing. The shortlist of vetted full stack Laravel developers matching your stack and seniority is shared within 24 hours of the scoping call. Interview rounds (technical screen, live coding, culture fit) happen within 72 hours of contract. Developer onboarding (repository access, Slack, project management tools) is complete by end of week one. If the developer is not the right fit, the 5 day replacement clause applies and a new engineer joins without recontracting.
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What frontend technologies do your full stack developers know?
Our full stack Laravel developers ship with Livewire 3 (the default for most Laravel apps where the same team owns frontend and backend), Inertia with Vue 3 or React for SPA style frontends, Blade with Alpine.js for traditional server rendered apps, and Tailwind CSS plus Vite for asset pipeline. Senior full stack engineers also handle Filament 3 and Nova 5 admin panels, real time UI through Reverb or Pusher, and component library work in Tailwind UI or shadcn. The choice of frontend stack is made per project based on team and product fit.
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Will I work directly with the developer or through a project manager?
Both options work. In a Resource Extension engagement (most common for full stack hires) you work directly with the developer through your Slack, project management tool, and standups, exactly as if they were on your team. In a Dedicated Team engagement we add a project manager who handles coordination, reporting, and quality oversight. In a Project Outsourcing engagement we run the engineering management end to end and you interact with the project manager. You pick the model that fits how your team works.
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Do you handle the IP and confidentiality?
Yes, completely. NDAs are signed before any project discussions, so you can share sensitive context during scoping calls without exposure. Source code is yours from commit one with full IP transfer terms in writing. Repository, infrastructure access, and credentials remain in your control. We are ISO 27001 certified, which covers access control, secret management, and audit trail requirements that compliance teams typically need to see before working with an outside vendor.
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What if the developer is not the right fit?
Our 5 day developer replacement clause covers this. If you find the developer is not the right fit (technical level wrong, communication mismatch, team chemistry off) within the first month, we replace the developer within 5 working days at no additional cost and without recontracting. Replacement engineers are pre vetted from our existing bench so onboarding is fast. We share the assessment of the original developer with the replacement to keep continuity on context.
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What timezone overlap can I expect?
Our engineers are based in Ahmedabad, India (IST). UK clients (GMT or BST) typically get 4 to 6 hours of working overlap per day. US East Coast clients get 2 to 3 hours of overlap. US West Coast clients get 1 to 2 hours. Australian East Coast clients get 3 to 5 hours. We can match shift hours to your timezone (e.g. 11am to 7pm IST instead of 9am to 5pm IST) for an additional overlap of two hours, agreed at contract signing.
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Can I hire one engineer to start and add more later?
Yes. Most engagements start with one full stack engineer to validate the working relationship, then expand to two or three engineers in months two and three as the engagement proves out. Scaling up does not require recontracting, just an updated engagement schedule. We keep a small bench of pre vetted full stack engineers ready, so adding capacity typically takes one to two weeks from request to new engineer joining standups.
Other developers you can hire.
Most clients hire more than one skill. Backend developers pair with frontend, full stack teams pair with QA, and every serious build eventually needs DevOps, design, and delivery leads. These are the roles teams add alongside this one.
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03Full Stack, API & JavaScript Hiring
05Mobile, .Net & CMS Hiring
05Data, AI, DevOps & Emerging Tech
05Design, QA & Delivery Roles
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