Junior Developer

FIRESTORM INTERNET
Junior Developer
Job Description
Position
Junior Developer (2 openings)
Company
Firestorm Internet
Experience
0–1 year. Freshers welcome
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
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
ABOUT US
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.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
· Maintain and improve our 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
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
· Problem solving: Can break a problem down and write working code for it 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: 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. Some PHP is a plus
· 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
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

Work arrangement
No