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