Permissions and approvals
Roles, branch or department scoping, multi-step approvals and an audit trail of who changed what. This is where business systems usually get hard, and where Laravel's structure helps.
Hire developers
Hire Laravel Developers in Bangladesh
PHP back ends, APIs and admin platforms built to be maintained.
- PHP 8
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Livewire
- Filament
How do I hire Laravel developers in Bangladesh?
Hiring laravel developers through BetterSoftZ means engaging engineers employed in Dhaka who work exclusively on your product on a monthly agreement. They work in your repository and sprint process, you meet them before the engagement starts, and all code and infrastructure remain yours.
What we put them on.
- Business systems with complex permissions and approvals
- Admin back offices and internal tooling
- APIs serving web and mobile clients
- Taking over an inherited PHP codebase
What do Laravel developers usually build?
Back offices and internal tools
Admin panels for operations, finance or support teams, built with Livewire or Filament where that fits and a separate front end where it does not.
APIs for web and mobile
A versioned API with token authentication that a website and a mobile app can both use, so the rules live in one place.
Inherited PHP codebases
Reading what is there first, adding tests around the paths that matter, then upgrading PHP and Laravel versions in small steps instead of one risky rewrite.
What does a typical team look like?
A typical Laravel engagement is one or two Laravel engineers, with a front-end or QA engineer joining part of the time. If the same API will also serve a mobile app, a Flutter engineer is usually added so both sides agree on the contract early.
What should you check in an interview?
- Ask how they would model roles and permissions for an organisation with branches and approval chains.
- Ask how they find and fix slow queries, including N+1 problems and missing indexes.
- Ask how they would move a project from an old Laravel version to a current one.
- Ask how they store and round money, and how they test it.
Where this stack is the wrong choice.
Laravel is an excellent fit for business systems and a poor one for very high-throughput real-time workloads, where we would propose Node or Go instead.
How does the engagement work?
Hiring developers here normally means the dedicated team model: a named squad works only on your product for a monthly fee, and you decide scope sprint by sprint. There is a three-month minimum, then it runs month to month. Two other models exist, and the right one depends on how settled the work is.
Dedicated team
Best when the roadmap runs past one release and priorities shift. This is what hiring developers usually means.
Fixed price
Better when you can specify the whole project up front and want one figure with milestone payments, rather than engineers by the month.
Time and materials
Suits discovery, audits and support, billed against time worked with a cap agreed in advance.
Under every model, source code and infrastructure accounts are yours, you get working software on a staging link every two weeks, and you get written progress notes each week.
How does onboarding work?
- 1
Brief
You describe the work, the roadmap and how your sprints run. We propose a squad shape that fits, not a standard package.
- 2
Meet the engineers
You see CVs, then speak to the people proposed. If someone is not right, we propose another rather than defend the first choice.
- 3
Access
Each engineer gets a named account in your repository, tracker and chat, in accounts you own. We suggest giving only the access the work needs.
- 4
A small first task
We suggest the first task is small but real: a change that goes through your whole pipeline to staging, so any friction in the process shows up before large work begins.
- 5
Steady rhythm
Regular sprints, written weekly notes, and a notice period and handover plan that were agreed in the contract before anyone started.
How much do working hours overlap with ours?
Dhaka is GMT+6 and Bangladesh does not currently use daylight saving, so the offset only moves when your clocks do. That makes the overlap simple arithmetic. Dhaka is 6 hours ahead of the UK in winter and 5 in summer, so a morning in the UK is already afternoon in Dhaka. It is 10 to 11 hours ahead of US Eastern time, so overlap with the US is the end of the Dhaka day. Australia is 4 to 5 hours ahead of Dhaka, which leaves a large shared window.
We recommend agreeing a core overlap window in writing at the start, for stand-ups and reviews, and letting everything else run asynchronously through the tracker and written notes. Tell us your hours in the brief and we will say plainly how much overlap that gives you.
Engagement
Common questions
Can your Laravel developers take over a project another agency built?
Yes. We ask for repository access and time with whoever knows the system, then read before we estimate. You get a plain account of what is risky and what is sound, so the decision to keep, repair or replace is yours.
Which PHP and Laravel versions do they work with?
Current versions for new work. For inherited projects they work on whatever version is running, and we plan upgrades in small steps rather than assuming a rewrite.
Do they use Livewire and Filament or a separate front end?
Either. Livewire and Filament are quick for admin work. A separate React front end suits products with a heavy customer-facing interface. We recommend one after seeing the screens.
How quickly can laravel developers start?
Typically two to three weeks from agreement, depending on the seniority mix. We would rather propose a start date we can hold than promise next Monday and put whoever happens to be free on your product.
Can we interview the engineers first?
Yes, and we recommend it. You see CVs, then speak to the people proposed. If someone is not right for your team, we propose someone else rather than pushing the original choice.
What if we need to scale the team up or down?
Scaling up takes a few weeks for the right person. Scaling down follows the notice period in the agreement. Neither requires renegotiating the whole contract.
What does it cost?
A monthly rate per engineer, set by seniority and agreed before start, with no separate recruitment or onboarding fee. We quote after understanding the work, because a team shape proposed without that is guesswork.
Who manages the engineers day to day?
You do. You set priorities, review the work and run the sprint. The engineers are employed by BetterSoftZ in Dhaka, and the agreement sets out how a handover works if someone leaves or must be replaced.
Who owns the code and the accounts?
You do. Source code and work product belong to you on payment, and repositories, hosting and third-party services run in accounts you own, so you never depend on us to reach your own system.
Tell us what the team needs to cover.
We will propose a squad shape, name the engineers, and set a start date we can actually hold.