Senior PHP engineers,
on contract.
Levelbrook staffs senior PHP developers onto your team — for modern Laravel and Symfony builds, lean Slim APIs, custom WordPress plugins, and the unglamorous, valuable work of maintaining and modernizing legacy CodeIgniter and CakePHP codebases. No job too small; nothing too old to rescue. Tested, maintainable code with the decisions written down. Corp-to-corp, MSA / SOW / NDA / COI ready on day one.
The same app, built in six PHP frameworks — live.
We built one small application — a public message board called Quip — idiomatically in six different PHP frameworks, and deployed each one. Click any framework to use the live demo, or read the source. This is what "we actually know PHP, across the board" looks like.
The modern PHP framework — Eloquent, Blade, queues, the works. Built to current best practices.
View live demo → source on GitHubEnterprise-grade architecture — DI container, attributes, Doctrine, Twig. The components Laravel itself is built on.
View live demo → source on GitHubThe lightweight, no-nonsense workhorse. Fast to learn, fast to run — ideal for maintaining and extending established codebases.
View live demo → source on GitHubConvention over configuration, batteries included. A classic we keep humming for teams with years of CakePHP behind them.
View live demo → source on GitHubA PSR-7/PSR-15 micro-framework for lean APIs and services — no bloat, just routing, middleware, and clean PDO.
View live demo → source on GitHubCustom plugins, blocks, and integrations on the platform that runs 40% of the web. Real engineering, not just themes.
View live demo → source on GitHubWe give back to the PHP ecosystem.
Original, MIT-licensed packages that fill real gaps in the PHP toolchain — the kind of thing you write when you've felt the pain in production.
levelbrook/forall
Property-based testing for PHP with automatic shrinking — a QuickCheck/Hypothesis for Pest & PHPUnit. The gap PHP never filled.
GitHub →levelbrook/laravel-idempotency
Stripe-style idempotency-key middleware for Laravel — safe retries on write APIs, race-safe, drop-in.
GitHub →levelbrook/typed-env
Parse-don't-validate, schema-validated environment config — fail fast at boot instead of mid-request on a bad env var.
GitHub →What we staff.
Senior contract engineers across the PHP landscape — frameworks, platforms, and the work in between.
Need PHP hands this week?
Tell us what you're running into — a stalled Laravel build, a CodeIgniter app nobody wants to touch, a WordPress integration, or just an extra senior engineer. No pitch; we'd rather understand the problem.
Email the PHP practice →Common questions.
Do you do Laravel and Symfony, or legacy PHP too?
Both. We staff modern Laravel and Symfony builds to current best practices, and we maintain, upgrade, and rescue legacy CodeIgniter, CakePHP, and older PHP 5/7 codebases. No job is too small or too old.
How do you engage — contract, C2C, staff augmentation?
Corp-to-corp staff augmentation by default: our senior PHP engineers embed with your team on contract. MSA, SOW, NDA, and COI ready on day one. Hourly, project, or retainer.
Can you prove you actually know these frameworks?
Yes — every framework above links to a live, deployed demo of the same application built idiomatically in that framework, with full source on GitHub. We also publish open-source PHP packages.
How fast can you start?
Typically within one business day for scoping, and we can have an engineer contributing the same week for most engagements.