Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (equivalent experience considered)
• Strong PHP proficiency - 5+ years of practical OOP experience
• Strong MySQL / PostgreSQL proficiency - 5+ years of practical experience
• 3+ years of practical experience with a PHP MVC framework (Symfony preferred; Laravel acceptable)
• 3+ years of practical experience with Git for source control
• Comfortable working in a Unix-based OS (Ubuntu Linux or macOS)
• Creative problem solver with a collaborative, open-source mindset
• Self-directed and self-motivated, able to learn new technologies independently
• Fluent in English (written and verbal)

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, and maintain internal and client-facing functionality across the full lifecycle, from inception through deployment
• Write clean, efficient, and reusable code, applying SOLID, DRY, and KISS principles
• Monitor, test, improve, and upgrade existing functionality
• Contribute ideas to improve the system and advance company goals
• Refactor legacy code into a new Symfony / ReactJS based system
• Help maintain and improve the AWS-based production environment
• Create and consume APIs (both REST and SOAP)

Projects You'll Work On

• Upgrading Tim into a multimodal, agentic AI tax assistant
• Migrating the PHP codebase into a RESTful Symfony API
• Migrating the front-end into a ReactJS single-page application
• Exposing the service as a public API (OpenAPI Spec)
• Using machine learning to serve customers faster

What We Offer

• Hardware of your choice (Apple MacBook or Dell XPS)
• Skillshare account and LLM subscription to support ongoing learning
• All the software licenses you need to do your best work
• Meaningful impact: build products that genuinely help people
• Autonomy to estimate, schedule, and own your projects
• Beautiful shared office in Cape Town with a mountain view
• Small-team, start-up culture - no "big corporate" feel
• Hybrid working model: 3 days in-office, 2 days remote focus time