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)