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.<\/p>\n
What we’re proud of:<\/p>\n
\tStarted in 2011 with seed funding from Google
\n\tIntegrated with SARS eFiling
\n\tHave helped over 14 million South Africans to date
\n\tPartnerships with Momentum, Sanlam, Old Mutual, PwC, Nedbank, Capitec, FNB, Airbnb (To name a few)
\n\tDriving profits for some of the biggest insurance companies
\n\tConsistent ease-of-use rating above 9\/10<\/p>\n
Perks of the job:<\/p>\n
\tWe’ll assist you in procuring a workhorse – we like Apple Macbooks and Dell XPSs
\n\tYour very own Skillshare account and LLM subscription, to feed your hungry mind
\n\tAll the software licenses you could possible need
\n\tCreate miracles that people love you for by Making Tax Easy
\n\tYou estimate, schedule and own your projects
\n\tWork in beautiful Cape Town, in our shared office space with a mountain view
\n\tSmall team = great start-up experience and anti-big corporate feel
\n\tOur semi-remote hybrid working model strikes a great work\/life balance (3 office days, 2 home focus days)<\/p>\n
Cool projects ahead:<\/p>\n
\tUpgrading Tim to a multimodal agentic AI tax assistant
\n\tMigrating our PHP codebase into a RESTful Symfony API
\n\tMigrating our front-end into a ReactJS SPA
\n\tTurning our whole service into an API for use by anyone (OpenAPI Spec)
\n\tUsing machine-learning to help our customers faster<\/p>\n
Requirements:<\/p>\n
\tA Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (Equivalent experience may also be considered)
\n\tStrong knowledge of PHP (2+ years practical OOP experience, WordPress doesn’t count)
\n\tStrong knowledge of MySQL \/ Postgres (2+ years practical experience)
\n\tPHP MVC framework experience (2+ years practical experience using Symfony, or Laravel works too)
\n\tCompetent with source control (2+ years practical experience using Git)
\n\tComfortable working in a Linux environment (we like Ubuntu)
\n\tA creative problem solver, that’s willing to explore, with a collaborative open source type mindset
\n\tInterested to learn a lot, be coached into best practices, work in a team and be corrected at times, confident asking for help
\n\tSelf-directed and self-motivated, able to up-skill and learn new technologies without supervision
\n\tFluent in English (written and verbal)<\/p>\n
Responsibilities:<\/p>\n
\tArchitect, develop and maintain both internal and client-facing functionality, from inception through to deployment, full life cycle
\n\tWrite clean, efficient and reusable code, utilizing best practices such as SOLID, DRY and KISS
\n\tMonitor, test, improve and upgrade existing functionality
\n\tAssist with refactoring legacy code into a new Symfony \/ ReactJS based system
\n\tAssist with maintaining and improving an AWS based production environment
\n\tCreate and consume APIs (both REST and SOAP)<\/p>\n
Salary range: R35 – 60k (based on skill and experience)<\/p>\n
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