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Onboard top PHP talent in days, no delays.

Hundreds of companies scale their teams with our senior PHP developers. Accelerate software delivery with vetted, time zone-aligned tech talent. Hire top 1% engineers in 2 weeks.
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Trusted by CTOs at 1500+ companies:

Your PHP Development Partner

Why choose between cost savings and quality?
We give you both.

We're a US-based company powered by LATAM dev teams. It's a powerful combination. Procurement is simpler. Quality expectations are shared. Accountability is always there.

Plus, our developers work your hours, speak English, and have experience with US teams. So you get the cost and scalability benefits of nearshore software development - without any of the sacrifices.

4000+Senior Developers in your time zone
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Their engineers perform at very high standards. We've had a strong relationship for almost 7 years.

Why Bairesdev

The easy way to hire the highest quality PHP developers.

We’re a development partner, not a platform. This means we handle everything from recruitment to hardware to certifications. Work with us and enjoy the ease of a white-glove hiring experience.

  • Vetted Senior Talent
    We hire the top 1% of over two million applicants, so you only work with the best.
    We give you engineers who’ve already proven they can deliver. Our rigorous evaluation process includes technical tests, English assessments, soft skill screening, problem-solving simulations, and more. Out of over 2 million applicants who apply yearly, fewer than 1% get the chance to join our team. This is how we ensure you get highly qualified developers who are experts in their fields.
  • Timezone Aligned
    We work your team’s hours, which creates faster feedback loops and fewer blockers.
    Our nearshore software engineers share your workday. Whether we’re answering Slack messages, joining daily standups, or presenting a demo to stakeholders, we work alongside your team in real time. Questions get answered quickly. Blockers are resolved as they come up. Simple tasks like reviewing a pull request take 20 minutes, not 24 hours.
  • Proficient in English
    Our engineers have strong English skills, so communication and documentation are clear.
    We assess English proficiency through verbal interviews and written assignments. Our software engineers can explain decisions, write clear documentation, and actively participate in discussions with your team without barriers. Because we’re familiar with US business culture, our devs also know how and when to speak up, how to handle feedback, and what ownership looks like on a team.
  • Scalable Teams
    Our bench strength lets you scale engineering teams to meet new demands in weeks.
    Engineering needs can grow fast, and we’re built for that. With 4,000+ software engineers on staff and thousands more in our pipeline, we can spin up pods or scale multiple teams across your company simultaneously in a few days to a few weeks. Take on bigger initiatives and hit aggressive timelines without bottlenecks slowing you down.
  • Standard MSAs & SoWs
    We’re easy to onboard because we work the way your legal team expects us to.
    Because we’re based in the US, we follow the same legal standards your team already trusts. We use master service agreements, statements of work, and other documentation that fit your procurement process. This means you get clear expectations and accountability from the beginning. So your legal team can easily green-light the engagement with fewer back-and-forths.
  • NDAs & IP Protection
    We take data and IP seriously, with full protection baked into every engagement.
    We treat your assets with the same care you do, and our processes are designed to provide a foundation of trust and transparency. Every engagement begins with a mutual NDA and clear IP ownership terms covering everything from code to designs and documentation. Our secure workflows and confidentiality protocols also protect existing codebases and other proprietary data.
  • Enterprise-grade Security
    Our devs follow security protocols that meet even the strictest enterprise standards.
    Our software engineers slot into your ecosystem without adding risk. They’re trained on secure development practices and only work within the systems and environments they need. Our security protocols include strict IAM-based access control, MFA, audit-friendly workflows, and more. It’s how we bring enterprise-grade protection to every engagement, no matter your company size.
  • Managed Delivery
    We actively track our devs’ work to make sure they consistently meet expectations.
    With us, you never have to chase updates or second-guess performance. Our delivery managers continually monitor how our software engineers are working to ensure consistent delivery and high work quality. They check in regularly, track progress, and even help resolve blockers. It’s one more way we streamline projects and accelerate your roadmap.
We have 100s of PHP devs on staff.

Our PHP Experts

Meet the senior PHP developers behind our best work.

This is the level of talent we place on your team. With 8+ years of experience and multiple complex builds under their belts, our software engineers raise the bar on every project they work on.

  • Ana M.
    10+ years of experience
    Senior PHP Developer

    Ana is a seasoned PHP developer with expertise in building scalable healthcare platforms using Symfony and PostgreSQL. She recently developed a secure REST API for patient data management, improving system efficiency and ensuring HIPAA compliance for a healthcare provider.

    Previous Clients
    Fresenius
    Tech Stack
    PHP
    JavaScript
    PostgreSQL
    REST APIs
    Symfony
  • Francis F.
    10+ years of experience
    Senior PHP Developer

    Francis has led the development of scalable media platforms, utilizing PHP and Symfony to handle high traffic loads. He recently implemented Docker for containerization and AWS for cloud scalability, enhancing system reliability and reducing downtime by 35%.

    Previous Clients
    Associated Press
    Tech Stack
    PHP
    Symfony
    AWS
    PostgreSQL
    Docker
  • Joaquim R.
    15+ years of experience
    Senior PHP Developer

    Joaquim has specialized in developing high-performance e-commerce platforms using PHP and Laravel. He recently improved a client’s site by developing a custom API for real-time inventory tracking, which increased order accuracy and reduced processing time by 20%.

    Previous Clients
    eBay
    Tech Stack
    PHP
    Laravel
    MySQL
    JavaScript
    API Development
  • Lucía Antonia G.
    15+ years of experience
    Senior PHP Developer

    Lucía Antonia has led the development of secure financial platforms, leveraging PHP with Laravel and Vue.js. Recently, she optimized a transaction processing system, improving speed by 30% through Redis caching and MongoDB integration for a financial services client.

    Previous Clients
    BBVA
    Tech Stack
    PHP
    Laravel
    Vue.js
    Redis
    MongoDB

PHP case studies

Hundreds of PHP projects delivered.

Our track record means you get software that meets the highest technical and business standards.

Hardware Solutions

Comprehensive QA and Website Maintenance for NETGEAR

NETGEAR
Security

Strengthened Data Protection Tools Through Comprehensive QA

Forcepoint
Consumer Electronics

Delivered UX-Focused Website Redesign for Arlo’s Security Product Line

Arlo
Advertising

Developed Custom Client Sites on Drupal, WordPress, and .NET

Trone Brand Energy
Government

Enhanced Government Web Platforms with React Calendar and Drupal Upgrades

Flexible engagement models

Need extra PHP expertise?
Plug us in where you need us most.

We customize every engagement to fit your workflow, priorities, and delivery needs.

  • Need a couple of extra software engineers on your team?
    Staff Augmentation
    Get senior, production-ready developers who integrate directly into your internal team. They work your hours, join your standups, and follow your workflows—just like any full-time engineer.
  • Need a few teams to deliver several projects in simultaneously?
    Dedicated teams
    Spin up focused, delivery-ready pods to handle full builds or workstreams. Together we align on priorities. Then our tech PMs lead the team and drive delivery to maintain velocity and consistency.
  • Want to offload everything to us, from start to finish?
    Software outsourcing
    Hand off the full project lifecycle, from planning to deployment. You define the outcomes. We take full ownership of the execution and keep you looped in every step of the way.
No matter how we work together,
always get our top 1% tech talent.

We don’t settle for anything less than the best, and neither should you. Our long, rigorous vetting process ensures only top performers work on your software development projects.

Job Applications
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Job Applications
We receive over 2.4 million applications a year, which gives us unmatched access to top global tech talent and the ability to handpick the best people for every project.
Online Tests
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Online Tests
Candidates go through logic and technical assessments built to surface top-tier problem-solvers. We examine how they think and perform under pressure.
HR Interview
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HR Interview
We verify expertise, English skills, critical thinking, and cultural fit while identifying the techs each candidate masters and enjoys most.
Technical Interview
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Technical Interview
Our senior engineers validate hands-on ability in the candidate’s top technology. We focus on evidence of real expertise over years in the field.
AI + Expert Review
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AI + Expert Review
Our algorithm paired with expert review ensure only the highest-performing profiles with the right skillset and mindset are shortlisted for each role.
Hired! Top 1%
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Hired! Top 1%
Client testimonials

Get PHP results you can stand behind.

Our work holds up in reviews, in production, and in front of the board.

Join 500+ companies who count on our PHP developers

Our Talent Approach

How we find the best-fit devs for your PHP projects:

With hundreds of skilled PHP engineers on our team, we focus on one thing: finding the right fit. We bring in senior developers who’ve worked in teams like yours and built solutions like yours.

Skills for PHP development

The expertise you need for the results you want.

We've been refining our hiring process for over a decade. We can proudly say our engineers are the best of the best: top PHP developers who’ve proven they have the skills to build stable, high-performing applications.

  1. 1
    Enterprise-Grade PHP Architecture

    Without strategic design, applications become tightly-coupled and difficult to maintain, making new feature development slow and risky. Our developers understand how to architect your systems and structure code for long-term projects and how to balance tradeoffs between speed and complexity. That means using dependency injection, namespacing, and autoloading to reduce coupling, improve test coverage, and make it easier for multiple teams to work in the same codebase.

  2. 2
    Mastery of Laravel and Symfony

    Developers often struggle when business needs diverge from a framework's standard use cases. Our developers understand Symfony and Laravel at the architectural level. They’ve extended core features, optimized ORM usage, customized middleware pipelines, and built complex apps using service containers, event systems, and reusable components. This mastery ensures your application can support unique business logic without complex overhauls.

Put top talent on your team in 2-4 weeks.

We have reps across the US.

Speak with a client engagement specialist near you.

  1. Discuss solutions and decide team structure.

    Tell us more about your needs. We’ll discuss the best-fit solutions and team structure based on your success metrics, timeline, budget, and required skill sets.

  2. Onboard your team and get to work.

    With project specifications finalized, we select your team. We’re able to onboard developers and assemble dedicated teams in 2-4 weeks after signature.

  3. We track performance on an ongoing basis.

    We continually monitor our teams’ work to make sure they’re meeting your quantity and quality of work standards at all times.

Our Awards

Global companies have trusted our developers to build and scale PHP solutions for over a decade.

  • Forcepoint
  • Abbott
  • AbbVie
  • Abra
  • Acklands-Grainger
  • Acumen
  • Arlo
  • Associated Press
  • Autodesk
  • Avigilon
  • Azlo
  • BBVA
  • Blackboard
  • Burger King
  • Care.com
  • Chime
  • ConsumerAffairs
  • GlobalStart
  • CropTrak
  • eBay
  • Ernst & Young
  • Fresenius
  • Gennev
  • Google
  • Great Wolf Lodge
  • Groupon
  • Hewllet-Packard
  • HomeAdvisor
  • IBM
  • Instructure
  • IPG Mediabrands
  • IQVIA
  • iSeatz
  • iWave
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • Kapsch
  • Keller Williams
  • Kinesso
  • Limeade
  • Netgear
  • Newsela
  • NextRoll
  • Panasonic
  • Patra Company
  • Pinterest
  • R/GA
  • Regeneron
  • Repay
  • Rolls-Royce
  • Salesforce
  • Sana Sano Consulting
  • SAP
  • SiriusXM
  • Swordpoint
  • Thomson Reuters
  • Ticket Galaxy
  • Trone Brand Energy
  • Turner
  • Udemy
  • Univision
  • Urban Outfitters
  • Verisk
  • ViacomCBS
  • Volkswagen
  • Volvo
  • Whirlpool
  • Xtensifi

Excellence.
Our minimum bar for client delivery.

Over 130 awards, accolades, and achievements showcase our quality and commitment to client success.

Our trophy cabinet
  • 1,250+projects
    delivered
    projects executed successfully
  • 130+industry
    sectors
    industry sectors industry sectors
  • America's Fastest-Growing Companies 2025 by Financial Times
    America's Fastest-Growing Companies 2025 by Financial Times
  • Top 100 U.S. IT Innovators 2025 by CIO100 Awards
    Top 100 U.S. IT Innovators 2025 by CIO100 Awards
  • Nearshore North America Top Software Developers 2025 by Clutch
    Nearshore North America Top Software Developers 2025 by Clutch
  • Top 100 Global Outsourcing Providers 2024 by IAOP Global Outsourcing 100
    Top 100 Global Outsourcing Providers 2024 by IAOP Global Outsourcing 100

Accelerate PHP development and delivery with our top-rated nearshore teams.

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PHP FAQ

What tech leaders ask us about hiring PHP developers:

What kinds of PHP-based frameworks do your developers work with?

Laravel and Symfony make up most of our new builds, but our bench also includes veteran engineers who have tamed Laminas/Zend Framework, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, and a string of home-grown stacks. That matters if you have a patchwork of legacy services or a niche content management system no one wants to touch. We can keep proven components running while modernizing the rest. Because every senior on our roster has solved problems across several popular PHP frameworks, they know when to follow convention and when to extend or swap pieces without breaking your release schedule.

Can your PHP developers work with our legacy systems and still move fast?

Absolutely. We maintain apps that span many PHP versions, ranging from 5.x through the latest 8.x, often in the same codebase. First, we stabilize brittle code, closing security gaps, adding logging, and writing safety tests. Then we phase in modern patterns like dependency injection or service layers. 

Our approach keeps revenue-producing features online while we refactor behind the scenes. Teams typically see cleaner pull requests and faster release cycles within the first sprint, even though the platform underneath may be a decade old.

Do your developers handle secure authentication and database integration?

Yes. Enterprise PHP projects live or die on secure user authentication and solid data access. We implement JWT, OAuth 2.0, or SAML single sign-on, enforce least-privilege roles, and store secrets with HashiCorp Vault or AWS Secrets Manager. 

On the data side, we handle MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB document stores when the model requires it. Schema migrations, connection pooling, and encrypted at-rest storage come standard, so you get reliable database integration without new attack surfaces.

How do you match senior PHP developers to our project scope and tech needs?

We start by mapping project scope, tech stack, and constraints, including PHP version, architecture choices, delivery goals, and other factors such as compliance requirements. Then, we share a shortlist of senior PHP developers who’ve worked on similar projects. 

Our engineers are already vetted for technical and soft skills and aligned to US time zones, allowing them to integrate quickly and work your hours.

How quickly can we onboard your PHP experts?

Because we already have hundreds of vetted senior PHP developers on our team, we can onboard new engineers and full teams in 2-4 weeks. We also take care of hardware, tool access, certifications, and environment setup. 

Put simply, partnering with us is the fastest and easiest way to get top PHP developers working on your projects.

Do your developers integrate seamlessly with our team and tools?

Our developers integrate like any in-house engineer. They attend your stand-ups and use your communication and project management tools. Because our talent sits in US-aligned time zones, you get real-time collaboration with zero async overhead. 

Our engineers follow your branching model, respect your code standards, and adhere to your documentation practices. There’s no extra coordination layer to manage.

What makes your model better than hiring remote PHP developers on our own?

When you hire offshore PHP developers directly, you have to screen for technical fit, navigate contracts, and risk churn. Our model offers a white-glove experience. We provide vetted, full-time PHP talent with exceptional technical and soft skills. Our engineers quickly integrate into distributed teams and take ownership. When your needs change, you don’t need to start looking for additional talent. Just tell us what you need, and we will handle the rest.

How do you hire PHP developers? How are they vetted?

We rely on hands-on, scenario-based evaluations, which are far more effective than algorithm puzzles or multiple-choice tests. Our devs had to solve real PHP problems, explain architectural decisions, and walk through trade-offs they’ve made on past projects. We assess backend fundamentals, framework depth, and how they work in remote team settings. This rigorous vetting process is how we guarantee our engineers are senior professionals with a proven track record.

Can your PHP developers build or extend scalable web applications?

That is core to our practice. We profile live traffic with Blackfire, tune OPcache and PHP-FPM, and scale horizontally behind load balancers. When traffic spikes, we lean on Redis and queue workers to keep response times low. The result is a web application that grows predictably instead of wobbling under peak loads.

Have your PHP engineers handled CMS development or built dynamic websites?

Yes. We have rebuilt WordPress plugins for a media giant, refactored Drupal modules to speed editorial workflows, and delivered headless CMS solutions that feed mobile apps and storefronts. 

Whether you need custom fields, real-time previews, or multi-site management, we have the talent to keep content teams happy while developers push new features without downtime.

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