Vetted, bilingual PHP developers from Latin America. Ready to build and maintain Laravel apps, custom WordPress features and the older PHP your business still runs on.
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What a Virtustant hire handles
PHP developers who ship new Laravel features and keep the older PHP code your revenue depends on patched, tested and fast.
New Laravel features go from ticket to production with tests and a clean migration.
Older PHP code is moved to supported versions without breaking what already works.
Slow pages are traced to the query or loop behind them and fixed.
WordPress plugins and themes are built for what you need instead of stacking ten off-the-shelf ones.
Payments, CRMs and third-party APIs are connected with logging and error handling.
Changes ship through Git with a staging check and a way back if something fails.
Laravel applications, APIs and admin panels built with tests, queues and clean database migrations.
Older PHP upgraded to supported versions, slow queries fixed, and custom WordPress plugins and themes built without breaking the site.
Looking for outsourced PHP Developer services? Virtustant, a remote staffing agency based in St. Petersburg, Florida, places dedicated professionals from Latin America with US companies on one all-in hourly rate, with zero placement fees.
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A few of the tools our candidates work in every day. Running something else? We match your hire to the stack you already use.
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SQL
GitHub
AWSMeet the talent
Vetted, bilingual professionals on US hours. Your shortlist of 3 to 5 candidates arrives within 48 hours of your first call.
Joaquín B.
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PHP Developer
Uruguay
Renata C.
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PHP Developer
Felipe A.
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PHP Developer
Budget for your remote hire
One all-in hourly rate covers your hire's pay, payroll and the paperwork, with no recruitment or placement fee. Your quote is tailored to the role, experience and agreed schedule.
Starting rate, all-in
$8/hr
Based on 160 billed hours per month for 12 months at the displayed starting rate. This is an illustrative budget; your quote and invoices follow the agreed role, schedule and billing terms.
How it works
We learn the role, your team and the profile you need.
3 to 5 vetted candidates with video intros, CVs and skills tests.
Meet the candidates directly. Pick the one you want.
We handle contracts, payroll and the paperwork, so your hire starts within 72 hours of your first call.
If the hire ever leaves, we replace them at no cost.
No placement fee No long-term contract Lifetime replacement
How selective we are
Every applicant goes through recruiter screening, skills and English tests, and a live interview. Out of every 100 who apply, about 3 reach a live interview and 1 is hired.
Our clients, in their words
4.9 on G2 from 94 reviews. Read the original client testimonials and stories.
“They seem to get better as we go, and that really stood out from any other recruiting agency we've worked with.”
Virtustant has been a great partner in sourcing international talent for us. They work hard to understand our expectations and help vet prospects according to our standards.
The selection process was amazing, all the candidates are highly qualified and once selected it was easy to onboard and start working together.
Compare what developers cost by route in our software developer cost guide, and what WordPress work costs in our WordPress development services guide.
For WordPress sites and themes, see our WordPress developer page; for APIs in other stacks, see our back-end developer page.
Hiring, answered
Still have a question?Get in touch with our team, or email marketing@virtustant.com.
Get your shortlistYou get a shortlist of 3 to 5 vetted candidates within 48 hours of your first call, and your hire can start in 72 hours.
A PHP developer starts from $8/hr all-in, and the rate is scoped on the discovery call against seniority and stack. For reference, the BLS median wage for software developers was $65.38 an hour in May 2025. There are zero recruitment fees, so the all-in hourly rate is your only cost.
Laravel applications and APIs, PHP version upgrades, custom WordPress plugins and themes, MySQL query tuning, payment and third-party integrations, automated tests, and deploys, in tools such as PHP, Laravel, SQL, GitHub, and AWS. Tell us your framework, your PHP version and the first ticket you would hand over on the discovery call and we match candidates to all three.
Every placement carries a lifetime replacement guarantee with no time cap: if your hire ever leaves, we replace them at no cost. Engagements are month-to-month, and there are zero placement fees.
One all-in hourly rate covers the professional's pay, payroll and the paperwork. There is no recruitment or placement fee, and engagements are month to month.
Both. Virtustant places professionals with startups, small businesses and enterprise teams across the US, from a single hire to whole teams.
For most US teams, yes: a nearshore hire from Latin America works your business hours, so you collaborate in real time instead of across a 10- to 12-hour gap.
Every placement carries a lifetime replacement guarantee: if your hire ever leaves or is not the right fit, we replace them at no cost.
Roles we fill
88 roles
No role matches that search. Any role that can be done remotely on your hours can be scoped on the call.
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