Our Story

In March 2011, Evan had a problem. He assumed he could complete his own tax return with confidence and ease. He was wrong. After hours of stress and frustration, he setup a meeting with his friend Marc. Marc knew all about tax and made the process quick and easy. Evan thought "What if I could put Marc's brain in a machine, then put it online, so that everyone could have their very own affordable tax man to help them?"

With initial seed funding from Google and some hard work, the two created TaxTim.

Why Work For Us

We're solving an important problem that affects anyone who works and earns an income. Tax is a bitch. It has to be done, it's stressful, complicated and easy to mess up, costing you a LOT of money. Our solution is unique - we have built a completely scalable, digital tax assistant that provides personalised step-by-step service like a human expert would, but with no human beings involved - it's all automated. In 8 years our team of nine has helped over 7 million people. We love automation and we love helping people finish something they hate.

TurboTax in the US made $1.4 billion from a similar product in 2013. We are aiming for similar success in the African market. Come along for the ride?

Our Culture

We are proud Capetonians and our proximity to the mountain, our casual dress and relaxed vibe reflect it. Our focus is to get work done, so however you do it on whatever schedule is up to you. We are fond of cake - luckily there are two proficient bakers in the company, otherwise Canal Walk is just across the road. Our philosophy is that we do our best every day, enjoy our work, breathe, smile and try to enjoy a healthy work-life balance. Staying strong and contented matters just as much as hitting milestones, KPIs and numerical targets.

We strive to foster a learning environment, and naturally, the dev team comprises of a bunch of geeks & nerds, so we enjoy fiddling with new tech whilst learning from each other, and growing as a team. Fair warning, you'll bear witness to the odd "vim vs nano", and "Laravel vs Symfony" debate.

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)

Our Engineering Processes

First, a bit about our team.

Right now the dev team comprises of five developers and a designer - our director of product and co-founder Evan, CTO John, react native dev Franco, PHP dev Hamza, junior dev Joshua, and senior designer Ursula. Between us, you'll have access to 50+ years of coding experience to draw from, and a never-ending stream of dank memes to keep you entertained.

We strive for quality over quantity by adhering to the SOLID, DRY and KISS principles, adopt a primarily agile approach to project management, and run everything through our staging environment prior to rolling out to production via Bitbucket deployments to our AWS EC2 auto-scaled infrastructure.

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

Our Hiring Process

1. Initial interview, very standard stuff
2. Ask you to do a custom coding challenge
3. A quick call to discuss your challenge submission
4. Call your references
5. Hire you