Mid Level PHP Developer at TaxTim

• TaxTim is a friendly, all-digital tax robot, making tax easy for millions of South Africans. Operating much like a simple WhatsApp chat, TaxTim contains the brains of several tax experts rolled into one, and helps people to do their own tax returns quickly, easily and with confidence.

What we're proud of:

• Started in 2011 with seed funding from Google
• Integrated with SARS eFiling
• Have helped over 14 million South Africans to date
• Partnerships with Momentum, Sanlam, Old Mutual, PwC, Nedbank, Capitec, FNB, Airbnb (To name a few)
• Driving profits for some of the biggest insurance companies
• Consistent ease-of-use rating above 9/10

Perks of the job:

• We'll assist you in procuring a workhorse - we like Apple Macbooks and Dell XPSs
• Your very own Skillshare account and LLM subscription, to feed your hungry mind
• All the software licenses you could possible need
• Create miracles that people love you for by Making Tax Easy
• You estimate, schedule and own your projects
• Work in beautiful Cape Town, in our shared office space with a mountain view
• Small team = great start-up experience and anti-big corporate feel
• Our semi-remote hybrid working model strikes a great work/life balance (3 office days, 2 home focus days)

Cool projects ahead:

• Upgrading Tim to a multimodal agentic AI tax assistant
• Migrating our PHP codebase into a RESTful Symfony API
• Migrating our front-end into a ReactJS SPA
• Turning our whole service into an API for use by anyone (OpenAPI Spec)
• Using machine-learning to help our customers faster

Requirements:

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (Equivalent experience may also be considered)
• Strong knowledge of PHP (2+ years practical OOP experience, Wordpress doesn't count)
• Strong knowledge of MySQL / Postgres (2+ years practical experience)
• PHP MVC framework experience (2+ years practical experience using Symfony, or Laravel works too)
• Competent with source control (2+ years practical experience using Git)
• Comfortable working in a Linux environment (we like Ubuntu)
• A creative problem solver, that's willing to explore, with a collaborative open source type mindset
• Interested to learn a lot, be coached into best practices, work in a team and be corrected at times, confident asking for help
• Self-directed and self-motivated, able to up-skill and learn new technologies without supervision
• Fluent in English (written and verbal)

Responsibilities:

• Architect, develop and maintain both internal and client-facing functionality, from inception through to deployment, full life cycle
• Write clean, efficient and reusable code, utilizing best practices such as SOLID, DRY and KISS
• Monitor, test, improve and upgrade existing functionality
• Assist with refactoring legacy code into a new Symfony / ReactJS based system
• Assist with maintaining and improving an AWS based production environment
• Create and consume APIs (both REST and SOAP)

Salary range: R35 - 60k (based on skill and experience)