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Junior/Mid Level PHP Developer
Hire Resolve
Cape Town, Western Cape
Permanent
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Posted 21 November 2025

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Job Description

A South African company that provides an all-digital, friendly tax assistant that operates like a simple chat, embodying the expertise of tax professionals to help millions of South Africans file their tax returns quickly and easily, is seeking a Mid-Level PHP Developer to join their team in Cape Town.

Responsibilities:
  • Development: Architect, develop, and maintain internal and client-facing functionality across the full development lifecycle.

  • Code Quality: Write clean, efficient, and reusable code utilizing best practices (SOLID, DRY, KISS).

  • Refactoring: Assist with refactoring legacy code into the new Symfony / ReactJS system.

  • APIs: Create and consume APIs (REST and SOAP).

  • Operations: Assist with maintaining and improving our AWS-based production environment.


Minimum Requirements:
  • Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).

  • PHP: $2+$ years of practical Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) experience (no WordPress).

  • Frameworks: $2+$ years of practical experience with an PHP MVC framework (Symfony preferred, Laravel accepted).

  • Database: $2+$ years of practical experience with MySQL / PostgreSQL.

  • Source Control: $2+$ years of practical experience with Git.

  • Environment: Comfortable working in a Linux environment (Ubuntu).


Benefits:

  • Competitive salary based on experience (salary can potentially be more based on experience/skills)

IF you meet the above requirements and want to make a career-changing move, apply today by emailing your CV to [email protected]