MID-LEVEL PHP DEVELOPER

TaxTim Human Robot Pty Ltd; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 391,000 - 670,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

MacBook/Work devices

Skillshare & LLM access

Software licenses provided

Open-source mindset culture

Cape Town office with mountain view

Hybrid schedule (3 days office, 2 days

Remote-friendly workflows

Job summary

TaxTim is a digital tax assistant in Cape Town, delivering tax returns via a chat-like interface. You’ll work on upgrading our PHP codebase, migrate to RESTful Symfony APIs, and front-end in ReactJS, while maintaining AWS-based production systems.

We value a bachelor’s in CS/SE, 2+ years PHP and database experience, and a collaborative, self-driven approach. Expect a semi-remote hybrid model with an emphasis on practical, open-source-inspired development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 2+ years PHP experience with OOP.
• 2+ years MySQL/PostgreSQL experience.
• 2+ years Symfony or Laravel experience.
• 2+ years Git usage.
• Comfortable in Linux (Ubuntu).
• Fluent English, collaborative mindset.

Responsibilities

• Architect, develop and maintain internal and client-facing functionality from inception to deployment.
• Write clean, efficient, reusable PHP code using SOLID, DRY, KISS.
• Monitor, test and upgrade existing features; refactor legacy code.

Skills

PHP

MySQL

PostgreSQL

OOP

English

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE

Tools

Symfony

Laravel

ReactJS

Git

Linux

AWS

Job description

Mid Level PHP Developer

We’re doing the impossible by making tax easy with clever code. Up for the challenge?

What is 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)

See www.taxtim.com for more information.