Hire PHP Developers
Pre-screened PHP Developers who know Laravel, Symfony, and the inherited codebase your team avoids, matched to your application in about 3 days.
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When to hire a Fractional PHP Developer
Bring in a PHP Developer when your PHP application is earning money but nobody on the team can safely change it.
Your app is stuck on an old PHP version
You're running PHP 7 or older, hosting providers are dropping support, and the upgrade keeps getting pushed because no one knows what will break.
The original developer left
A custom PHP or CodeIgniter app runs core operations, and the only person who understood it is gone along with the documentation.
Laravel tickets are piling up
Product has a queue of features and integrations, but your current engineers are tied up on the frontend or mobile app.
Pages slow down under load
N+1 queries, missing indexes, and no caching layer mean checkout or dashboards crawl during peak traffic.
Security findings with no owner
An audit flagged SQL injection risks, outdated Composer packages, or unpatched WordPress plugins, and nobody has time to fix them.
You can't justify a full-time hire yet
The PHP workload is real but uneven, and a full-time salary doesn't match the hours the codebase actually needs.
The benefits of hiring a Fractional PHP Developer
Our PHP Developers join your repo, ship against your backlog, and leave behind code your team can maintain, without you adding a full-time salary line.
Pay for senior PHP work, not a full-time seat
Senior Laravel and Symfony experience on a monthly retainer, with no salary, benefits, or recruiting fees for a role you may only need part-time.
Clear the PHP backlog before your next sprint
We match you with pre-screened PHP Developers in about 3 days, so upgrade tickets and bug queues start moving within weeks rather than after a quarter of interviews.
Meet PHP experts with shipped production work
Every operator has a record of running PHP in production, from WooCommerce stores to multi-tenant SaaS on Laravel, and is pre-screened by veteran executive recruiters before you meet them.
How to hire a Fractional PHP Developer
No more juggling job boards and sorting through pools of unqualified applicants. Hiring a Fractional PHP Developer is easy with Go Fractional.
Discovery Call
Book a free 20-minute discovery call with one of our executive recruiters to review your goals, needs, and team dynamics.
Meet Experts
Within days, we'll introduce you to a short-list of pre-screened Fractional PHP Developer candidates to interview, each pre-screened by veteran executive recruiters before you meet them. Our match success rate is 98%.
Start Work
Finalize contract details with Go Fractional and get working within less than a week of your discovery call.
Engagements that fit how you work
Every Go Fractional engagement is structured for senior leadership without full-time overhead. Start fractional, scale up, or convert to full-time when you’re ready.
Fractional PHP Developer
- Senior leadership on a part-time schedule
- Monthly retainer, no recruiting fees
- Scale hours up or down as needs change
Contract-to-Hire
Trial a Fractional PHP Developer on a fractional engagement before converting them to a full-time hire.
- Keep the expert's learnings or convert to full-time
- Try the fit before you commit, no hiring risk
- Faster speed to market, conserving time and resources
Interim PHP Developer
Full-time coverage for a defined stretch: a leadership gap, a transition, or a critical project.
Hire InterimFractional vs full-time vs agency
Three ways to get PHP Developer leadership, and where each one wins.
| Factor | Fractional PHP Developer | Full-time PHP Developer | Agency / Dev Shop |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to hire | ~3 days to match | 2-4 months | 1-3 weeks plus scoping |
| Engagement | Monthly retainer, custom SOW | Salary + benefits | Project quote with markup |
| Who writes the code | The senior developer you interviewed | Your employee | Whoever the agency staffs, often juniors |
| Codebase knowledge | Builds context in your repo over time | Deep, long-term | Resets between projects |
| Best for | Laravel features, upgrades, legacy fixes on flexible scope | Large PHP product with steady full-time load | Fixed-scope builds like a new WordPress site |
We’ve helped hundreds of organizations Go Fractional
Twelve years: the average experience across a network of handpicked executives ready to make an impact on day one.
“It was literally three days after he started with us fractionally, our CEO was calling me and asking if we could get a full-time offer out.”
“It's a can't-lose scenario. You either get the learnings from the subject matter expert, or you get the full-time capability. It provided a ton of flexibility, much faster speed to market, and conservation of time and resources.”
“Go Fractional provided Mockingbird with a founder-level engineering leader that helped us out of a huge amount of tech debt, streamlining and modernizing our entire e-commerce stack”
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