Junior Developer

About the Role

Firestorm Internet runs a portfolio of 100+ travel guide websites covering famous attractions around the world, plus the tools and automation that build and run them. As a Junior Developer, you will work across the whole stack, from WordPress sites to back-end services, web apps, and AI-driven automation. You will own real work from day one, help design new products from scratch, and bring your own ideas to the table.

Type: Full-time, on-site

Salary: INR 22,000 – 30,000 per month

Location: Work EZ – The Ark, Rajiv Gandhi Salai, OMR, Sholinganallur, Chennai 600119

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve WordPress travel sites
• Build back-end services, REST APIs, and web apps backed by SQL databases
• Design and build new web products, from the first idea to a live release
• Write scripts and AI-driven automation, using AI coding tools and owning what they produce
• Deploy, monitor, and debug sites end to end, from browser to server to database
• Think through how a system should be designed before building it, and explain the trade-offs
• Suggest ideas for new features and products, and help shape them

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Problem solving: Ability to break a problem down and write working code in at least one of Python, JavaScript, or Java
• Web development: Basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; Git; and have built at least one website or web app
• How the web works: Understanding of browsers, servers, DNS and domains, and HTTP (requests and responses, methods, status codes, headers, and cookies)
• Back-end: Basics of building a back end with Node.js, Python (Flask, FastAPI), or Java, including REST APIs and SQL databases such as MySQL
• WordPress: Basic WordPress (themes, plugins, pages, and posts)
• AI: Hands-on use of AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or Copilot, and an interest in building with LLMs
• System design: Interest in how systems are designed, how the pieces of an app fit together, and the trade-offs between approaches
• Mindset: Curious, open to new ideas, and quick to learn, with ideas of your own

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, ECE, or a related field
• Strong self-taught candidates with projects to show are also welcome

Nice to have:

• React or Next.js
• Experience with a cloud platform such as Google Cloud, AWS, or Vercel
• Interest in travel and the travel industry