Senior PHP Developer — Hybrid (Symfony/Laravel) | API & AWS

TaxTim Human Robot Pty Ltd; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 558,000 - 893,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Macbooks provided

Skillshare + LLM access

All software licenses

Cape Town office with mountain view

Hybrid schedule 3 office days / 2 home

Job summary

TaxTim is seeking a Senior PHP developer to architect, develop and maintain internal and client-facing features, leveraging Symfony/Laravel and REST/SOAP APIs. Based in Cape Town, you will work in our semi-remote hybrid setup.

You should have 5+ years PHP, experience with MySQL/PostgreSQL, and a collaborative open source mindset. We offer Macbooks, Skillshare access, full software licenses, and a mountain-view office.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field (equivalent experience considered).
• 5+ years practical PHP experience with OOP; Wordpress does not count.
• 5+ years MySQL/PostgreSQL experience.
• PHP MVC framework experience (Symfony or Laravel).
• 3+ years Git experience; Unix-based OS comfort (Ubuntu/Mac).
• Strong problem solver with collaborative/open source mindset.
• Fluent in English (written and verbal).

Responsibilities

• Architect, develop and maintain internal and client-facing functionality end-to-end.
• Write clean, efficient, reusable code using SOLID, DRY and KISS principles.
• Monitor, test, and upgrade existing functionality.
• Contribute ideas to improve the system and reach goals.
• Refactor legacy code to Symfony/ReactJS based system.
• Maintain and improve an AWS production environment.
• Create and consume REST and SOAP APIs.

Skills

PHP

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Git

Unix

English

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

Symfony

Laravel

Git

Ubuntu Linux

Mac OS

Job description

TaxTim is seeking a Senior PHP developer to architect, develop and maintain internal and client-facing features, leveraging Symfony/Laravel and REST/SOAP APIs. Based in Cape Town, you will work in our semi-remote hybrid setup.

You should have 5+ years PHP, experience with MySQL/PostgreSQL, and a collaborative open source mindset. We offer Macbooks, Skillshare access, full software licenses, and a mountain-view office.