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We are looking for a senior level web developer (with around 5 – 7 years of experience) to help us continue making great websites. This is a remote position. You may be located anywhere in India or the rest of the world (with at least a 4‑hour time overlap with the Indian timezone).

About Us

Miranj is a strategic web design and development studio. We’ve been in business for over 12 years and have consciously remained a small specialised team with a clear purpose. We are laser-focused on the web — no mobile/​native apps, no product design, no digital UI/UX, no trying to imitate a ​“full-service agency”. We’ve been creating inclusive, accessible, ceaseless, clear, performant, future-friendly websites and with each passing year, we want to keep getting better at our craft.

We work directly with clients (no outsourced assignments or communicating via intermediaries) and offer them a turnkey web solution — strategy, design, development, support, and hosting. We’ve worked in domains such as media & publishing, manufacturing, conferences, recruitment, and even for other design studios. However, what sets us apart is our priority towards projects that are meaningful and serving society. Nearly two-thirds of our work is in the education (e.g. universities, science outreach, etc.) and non-profit (policy & advocacy, health, public interest campaigns, philanthropy, etc.) space.

We’re incorporated in New Delhi but in practice, we’re a fully remote organisation. Our team members are distributed between New Delhi, Bangalore and Phnom Penh (Cambodia). And we occasionally share our learnings with the web community at conferences around the world.

Our Expectations

As a senior web developer, you should be comfortable with —

• The entire web stack i.e. front-end (HTML/CSS), back-end, writing templates and working with modern JavaScript.
• Taking ownership of project repositories and ensuring stability over release cycles.
• Writing code for different & diverse application frameworks (in PHP / JavaScript etc).
• Ensuring low technical debt by catching and refactoring breaches.
• Creating robust & modular templating architectures.
• Automating processes by leveraging build tools and pipelines.
• Handling, manipulating and migrating data sets between environments.
• Leveraging shell scripts & command-line tools.
• Deploying projects on servers.
• Working with designers & managing developer hand-offs.
• Writing progressively enhanced HTML, CSS, JavaScript and adopting third-party libraries.

We believe the following traits will play nicely —

• You favour a long term relationship over a short stint
• You are eager to take charge and get stuff done
• You are open to learning and can pick up new technologies by reading documentation & tutorials
• You value your commitments
• You are good at communication, including writing
• You appreciate clean, readable code and honour coding style/​standards
• You like sharing ideas on how to make work more fun, meaningful and fulfilling
• You believe that an organisation should be run sustainably and with financial prudence

Your Responsibilities

Your work at Miranj will involve —

• Leading web projects and owning client relationships.
• Understanding key project requirements and architecting robust technical solutions.
• Translating designs into CMS templates, building custom features and plugins that extend CMS functionality.
• Performance optimisation through caching, image optimisation and other strategies.
• Maintaining, supporting, refactoring and upgrading past projects (typically, LAMP stack).
• Collaborating closely with external partners in a project team.

What’s on offer?

• Opportunity to work with modern systems and software, with continuous learning
• Projects that are meaningful and socially-conscious
• Monthly team hangout, which we’re told are fun
• Medical insurance (if you’re based in India)
• A sustainable pace of work (5‑day work week and up to 40 days of paid time off each year)
• A Mac for work use
• Support for speaking at conferences
• A culture that values reason and debate over authority; autonomy over control; slow and considered decision-making over fast and hasty; and a healthy work-life balance
• A healthy compensation, proportionate to the value you can bring to us

How to apply?

Fill out this application form. Make sure you point us to 3 projects that you’re proud of. For each one, mention the project duration, your role, and your contribution. In addition, please share your online presence (such as Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website/​Blog). And oh, do mention your hobbies. We’re curious about what you find interesting outside work.

We do not discriminate based on caste, race, religion, orientation, gender, physical ability, formal education, age, nationality or any such factors. If you belong to any under-represented community we strongly encourage you to send in your application.

If you know a suitable candidate for this opening, kindly refer them to us. If the endorsed candidate is a successful hire (retained post-3-month probationary period), we’ll be happy to share a referral fee of ₹50,000/- for your gesture.

We are looking for a mid-level web developer (with around 4 years of experience) to help support our ongoing and future projects. This is a remote position. You may be located anywhere in India or the rest of the world (with at least a 4‑hour time overlap with the Indian timezone). If you’re passionate about writing code and wish to grow as a developer while building websites hands-on, we’d love to have you grow alongside us.

About Us

Miranj is a strategic web design and development studio. We’ve been in business for over 10 years and have consciously remained a small specialised team with a clear purpose. We are laser-focused on the web — no mobile/​native apps, no product design, no trying to imitate a ​“full-service agency”. We’ve been creating inclusive, accessible, ceaseless, clear, performant, future-friendly websites and with each passing year, we want to keep getting better at our craft.

We work directly with clients (no outsourced assignments or communicating via intermediaries) and offer them a turnkey web solution — strategy, design, development, support, and hosting. We’ve worked in domains such as media & publishing, manufacturing, conferences, recruitment, and even for other design studios. However, what sets us apart is our priority towards projects that are meaningful and serving society. Nearly two-thirds of our work is in the education (e.g. universities, science outreach, etc.) and non-profit (policy & advocacy, health, public interest campaigns, philanthropy, etc.) space.

We’re incorporated in New Delhi but in practice, we’re a fully remote organisation. Our team members are distributed between India and Cambodia. And we occasionally share our learnings with the web community at conferences around the world.

Our Expectations

As a mid-level web developer, you should be comfortable with —

• Writing HTML, CSS, JavaScript and working with third-party front-end libraries
• Working with a templating language (preferably Twig)
• Converting design mockups into responsive, interactive webpages
• Collaborating using version control systems (Git or Mercurial)
• Writing PHP code using any modern framework (preferably Yii2)
• Using the Unix command-line
• Installing, developing and deploying a CMS-powered website (e.g. WordPress, Craft CMS, Ghost, Kirby, Statamic, Jekyll, Drupal etc.)
• Using package managers such as Composer, NPM, etc.
• Using build tools such as Gulp, Vite, etc.
• Working with different data formats such as YAML, JSON, CSVs, etc.
• Working with REST APIs

We believe the following traits will play nicely—

• You favour a long term relationship over a short stint
• You are eager to take charge and get stuff done
• You are open to learning and have the ability to pick up new technologies by reading documentation & tutorials
• You value your commitments
• You are good at communication, including writing
• You appreciate clean, readable code and honour coding style/​standards
• You like sharing ideas on how to make work more fun, meaningful and fulfilling
• You believe that an organisation should be run sustainably and with financial prudence

Your Responsibilities

Your work at Miranj will involve —

• Translating designs into CMS templates.
• Communicating and collaborating closely with clients and external partners in a project team.
• Understanding requirements, designing, and finally building new features in existing projects.
• Performance optimisation, SEO, image optimisation and other strategies.
• Maintaining, supporting, refactoring and upgrading past projects (typically, LAMP stack).
• Managing your own tasks and following team processes.

What’s on offer?

• Opportunity to work with modern systems and software, with continuous learning
• Projects that are meaningful and socially-conscious
• Monthly team hangout, which we’re told are fun
• Medical insurance (if you’re based in India)
• A sustainable pace of work (5‑day work week and up to 40 days of paid time off each year)
• A Mac for work use
• Support for speaking at conferences
• A culture that values reason and debate over authority; autonomy over control; slow and considered decision-making over fast and hasty; and a healthy work-life balance
• A healthy compensation, proportionate to the value you can bring to us

How to apply?

Fill out this form to point us to 3 – 4 projects that you’re proud of. For each one, mention the project duration, your role, and your contribution. In addition, please share your online presence (such as Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website/​Blog). And oh, do mention your hobbies. We’re curious about what you find interesting outside work.

We do not discriminate based on caste, race, religion, orientation, gender, physical ability, formal education, age, nationality or any such factors. If you belong to any under-represented community we strongly encourage you to send in your application.

If you know a suitable candidate for this opening, kindly refer them to us. If the endorsed candidate is a successful hire (retained post the 3‑month probationary period), we’ll be happy to share a referral fee of ₹25,000/- for your gesture.

We are looking for a mid-to-senior level web developer (with around 5 – 7 years of experience) to help us continue making great websites. This is a remote position. You may be located anywhere in India or the rest of the world (with at least a 4‑hour time overlap with the Indian timezone).

About Us

Miranj is a strategic web design and development studio. We’ve been in business for over 10 years and have consciously remained a small specialised team with a clear purpose. We are laser-focused on the web — no mobile/​native apps, no product design, no digital UI/UX, no trying to imitate a ​“full-service agency”. We’ve been creating inclusive, accessible, ceaseless, clear, performant, future-friendly websites and with each passing year, we want to keep getting better at our craft.

We work directly with clients (no outsourced assignments or communicating via intermediaries) and offer them a turnkey web solution — strategy, design, development, support, and hosting. We’ve worked in domains such as media & publishing, manufacturing, conferences, recruitment, and even for other design studios. However, what sets us apart is our priority towards projects that are meaningful and serving society. Nearly two-thirds of our work is in the education (e.g. universities, science outreach, etc.) and non-profit (policy & advocacy, health, public interest campaigns, philanthropy, etc.) space.

We’re incorporated in New Delhi but in practice, we’re a fully remote organisation. Our team members are distributed between India and Cambodia. And we occasionally share our learnings with the web community at conferences around the world.

Our Expectations

As a mid/​senior web developer, you should be comfortable with —

• The entire web stack i.e. front-end (HTML/CSS), back-end, writing templates and working with modern JavaScript.
• Taking ownership of project repositories and ensuring stability over release cycles.
• Writing code for different & diverse application frameworks (in PHP / JavaScript etc).
• Ensuring low technical debt by catching and refactoring breaches.
• Creating robust & modular templating architectures.
• Automating processes by leveraging build tools and pipelines.
• Handling, manipulating and migrating data sets between environments.
• Leveraging shell scripts & command-line tools.
• Deploying projects on servers.
• Working with designers & managing developer hand-offs.
• Writing progressively enhanced HTML, CSS, JavaScript and adopting third-party libraries.

We believe the following traits will play nicely —

• You favour a long term relationship over a short stint
• You are eager to take charge and get stuff done
• You are open to learning and can pick up new technologies by reading documentation & tutorials
• You value your commitments
• You are good at communication, including writing
• You appreciate clean, readable code and honour coding style/​standards
• You like sharing ideas on how to make work more fun, meaningful and fulfilling
• You believe that an organisation should be run sustainably and with financial prudence

Your Responsibilities

Your work at Miranj will involve —

• Leading web projects and owning client relationships.
• Understanding key project requirements and architecting robust technical solutions.
• Translating designs into CMS templates, building custom features and plugins that extend CMS functionality.
• Performance optimisation through caching, image optimisation and other strategies.
• Maintaining, supporting, refactoring and upgrading past projects (typically, LAMP stack).
• Collaborating closely with external partners in a project team.

What’s on offer?

• Opportunity to work with modern systems and software, with continuous learning
• Projects that are meaningful and socially-conscious
• Monthly team hangout, which we’re told are fun
• Medical insurance (if you’re based in India)
• A sustainable pace of work (5‑day work week and up to 40 days of paid time off each year)
• A Mac for work use
• Support for speaking at conferences
• A culture that values reason and debate over authority; autonomy over control; slow and considered decision-making over fast and hasty; and a healthy work-life balance
• A healthy compensation, proportionate to the value you can bring to us

How to apply?

Fill out this form to point us to 3 – 4 projects that you’re proud of. For each one, mention the project duration, your role, and your contribution. In addition, please share your online presence (such as Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website/​Blog). And oh, do mention your hobbies. We’re curious about what you find interesting outside work.

We do not discriminate based on caste, race, religion, orientation, gender, physical ability, formal education, age, nationality or any such factors. If you belong to any under-represented community we strongly encourage you to send in your application.

If you know a suitable candidate for this opening, kindly refer them to us. If the endorsed candidate is a successful hire (retained post-3-month probationary period), we’ll be happy to share a referral fee of ₹50,000/- for your gesture.

We are looking for someone who can help run our business functions smoothly. You could be an MBA graduate, an accounts graduate or someone who’s helped other businesses (or organisations) with operations or administration. If you’re passionate about getting things done and wish to gain an all-round understanding of how businesses run, we’d love to have you grow alongside us.

Miranj is a strategic web design and development studio based out of New Delhi. We architect information and design radically simple, future-proof websites. We started out in 2011, and have worked on websites for a variety of clients across domains such as film, conferences, internet advocacy, science & policy outreach, publishing, public interest campaigns, and other design studios. We’ve been speaking, curating and participating in various web conferences around the world. We’ve consciously remained small (between 2 – 4 people), while tackling projects collaboratively with peers and freelancers.

In the last few years all business functions and activities have been single-handedly tackled by one of our co-founders. We’ve reached a point where we need additional hands-on-deck to manage these activities.

Your Responsibilities

You’ll be working on a one-to-one basis with Souvik (our co-founder) and interact with several other stakeholders. In the process, you’ll touch upon various aspects of running a business operation across four broad categories:

1. Coordination and Communication: You’ll oversee flow of information with external stakeholders (clients, vendors, collaborators, etc.) incl. handling some of the team communications, organising meetings, managing calendars, etc. You’ll also help produce reports, presentations and documentations.
2. Business and Accounts: You’ll be interfacing with our Chartered Accountant (CA) and lawyer to ensure financial & legal governance. This includes overseeing accounting, bookkeeping, expense management, invoicing (incl. driving collections to timely closure), banking and contracting.
3. Operations and HR: You’ll managing administrative / operational tasks such as travel, purchases & payments, scouting vendors, office management (post COVID-19), etc. You’ll also assist us with hiring & on-boarding new members, planning and hosting team events (chill sessions, parties, etc.) and find ways to improve team performance, and exploring new digital tools to improve efficiency of our processes.
4. Sales and External Initiatives: You’ll help process new project enquiries which include understanding project briefs, determining alignment with our strengths & interests, and assisting with project pitches and proposals. You’ll also take charge of new initiatives & organising external events (such as World IA Day) or executing other marketing activities.

Your work will involve a healthy rotation of all the above. It is not expected that you will stand out at everything on the first day of your job. On the contrary, we’ll give you ample time to learn on the job.

Required Skills

• 1 – 3 years of relevant work experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
• Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to interface comfortably with a variety of people through the day
• Comfortable with computers and online tools for communications (email, Slack, WhatsApp, Google Meet, Zoom, etc.) and office suite (Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Docs, etc.)
• Ability to maintain a high level of discretion and confidentiality
• Well developed organisational and time management skills
• Ability to multitask and prioritise work
• Ability to anticipate next steps and take proactive actions/​make judgment calls
• Ability to identify problems in business functions and suggest solutions

Desirable Experience

Although not a necessity, it’ll be great if you also bring in the following experience—

• Hold a diploma/​degree in any business-oriented discipline (accounts, economics, commerce, business administration, etc.)
• Have worked at a small company or studio
• Have interfaced with external stakeholders and clients
• Have worked in a remote setting (co-ordinating over emails, chats, video-calls, etc.)
• Have worked in business development or project management roles
• Have used the following tools: Basecamp, Asana, Slack and Dropbox Paper
• Have a basic knowledge of finance and accounting principles
• Have a working knowledge of Hindi

We believe the following traits will play nicely—

• You are eager to take charge and get stuff done
• You are quick at learning new tools and processes
• You are dedicated, process-oriented and have an attention to detail
• You are highly disciplined, self-motivated and energetic
• You value your commitments at work
• You are open-minded about undertaking a wide variety of operational tasks
• You like sharing ideas on how to make work more fun, meaningful and fulfilling
• You appreciate coffee and love mountains

What’s on offer?

• Opportunity to learn several business functions in a lean, young organisation.
• Monthly team outings which we’re told are fun.
• Medical insurance.
• A culture that values reason and debate over authority; autonomy over control; slow and considered decision-making over fast and hasty; and a healthy work-life balance.
• A healthy compensation, proportionate to the operational smoothness you help us achieve.

Note: In light of the current COVID-19 situation you should have a productive work setup at home. However, please note that this is not a fully remote/​desk job. Your will be required to do occasional commutes within New Delhi to visit/co-ordinate between different stakeholders e.g. accountant, bank, vendors, etc.

How to apply?

Just fill out this form. It will ask you for a cover letter, CV and a few basic questions. Do ensure that your cover letter touches upon the following—

1. What makes you interested in this job?
2. Can you highlight some relevant past job experiences or experiences from college/extra-curricular where you’ve demonstrated organisational qualities?
3. What value do you bring in to this job and our organisation?
4. What are your hobbies and what do you find interesting outside work?

We shall not discriminate on the basis of caste, race, religion, orientation, gender, physical ability, age, nationality or any such factors. If you belong to any under-represented community we encourage you to send in your application.

Lastly, we’re a small team with limited bandwidth. It may not be feasible for us to respond to each application. If your application is selected for the next round of evaluation we will respond to you within 2 weeks. In case you don’t hear back from us in that timeframe, please consider your application rejected.

If you’d know a suitable candidate for this opening, kindly refer them to us. If the endorsed candidate is successfully hired we’d be happy to share a referral fee of ₹10,000/- for your gesture.

We are looking for an expert developer (at least 5‑years experience) to help us with our ongoing and future projects. You should be comfortable working with the entire web stack i.e. front-end (HTML/CSS), back-end (PHP, MySQL/​PostgreSQL) and writing templates (Twig, Mustache, Handlebars, etc.). Experience in JavaScript is not a necessity but is desirable. If you’re passionate about writing code and wish to grow as a developer while building websites hands on, we’d love to have you grow alongside us.

Miranj is a web design and development studio based out of New Delhi. We architect information and design radically simple, future-proof websites. We started out in 2011, and have worked on websites for a variety of clients across domains such as film, events & conferences, internet advocacy, science outreach, online publishing, public interest campaigns, and other design studios. We attend web conferences in India and around the world, often as a presenter (or curator) sharing our learnings with the community. We’ve consciously remained small (between 2 – 4 people), while tackling projects collaboratively with peers and freelancers.

Your Responsibilities

• Participating in project planning, strategy and estimation
• Information architecture and data modelling, often in the context of a Content Management System (CMS)
• Converting designs into front-end templates that render as responsive, interactive webpages
• Building custom features and plugins that extend CMS functionality
• Auditing code to meet quality standards expected from modern websites, such as SEO, accessibility, security, etc
• Optimising websites for performance through caching, image optimisation and other #perf strategies
• Maintaining, supporting and upgrading past projects (typically, LAMP stack)
• Data migration from one CMS to another
• Documenting your work and communicating with project teams and clients
• Learning and staying on top of web standards, development workflows, coding strategies and other industry best practices

Your work will involve a healthy rotation of all the above. It is not expected that you will stand out at everything on the first day of your job. However, as a full-stack developer, we expect you to be comfortable with—

• collaborating using version control systems (Git or Mercurial)
• writing PHP code using any modern framework (preferably Yii2)
• working with a templating language (preferably Twig)
• using package managers such as Composer, Npm, etc.
• using build tools such as Gulp, Webpack, etc.
• working with different data formats such as YAML, JSON, CSVs, etc.
• working with REST APIs
• using the unix command-line
• installing, developing and deploying a CMS-powered website (e.g. WordPress, Craft CMS, Ghost, Kirby, Statamic, Jekyll, Drupal etc.)
• converting design mockups into modular templates
• writing HTML, CSS, JavaScript and working with third-party front-end libraries

We believe the following traits will play nicely—

• You favour a long term relationship over a short stint
• You are eager to take charge and get stuff done
• You are open to learning, and have the ability to pick up new technologies by reading documentation & tutorials
• You value your commitments
• You are good at communication, including writing
• You appreciate clean, readable code and honour coding style/​standards
• You like sharing ideas on how to make work more fun, meaningful and fulfilling
• You believe that an organisation should be run sustainably and with financial prudence
• You appreciate drinking coffee, watering plants and love mountains

What’s on offer?

• Opportunity to work with modern systems and softwares, with continuous learning.
• Projects that are meaningful and socially-conscious.
• A cool office with a stocked pantry, which doubles up as a cosy co-working space.
• Monthly team meal/​outing, which we’re told are fun.
• Annual pilgrimage to the mountains, to rejuvenate from the stresses of work and city life.
• Medical insurance.
• A culture that values reason and debate over authority; autonomy over control; slow and considered decision-making over fast and hasty; and a healthy work-life balance.
• A healthy compensation, proportionate to the value you can bring to us.

Note: In light of the current COVID-19 situation you should have a productive work setup at home. This includes access to broadband internet, laptop and a decent mic/​camera to join calls.

How to apply?

Just fill out this form. Point us to 3 or 4 past projects/code-bases that you’re proud of. For each one, mention the project duration, your role, and your contribution. In addition, please share your online presence (such as Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website/​Blog). And oh, do mention your hobbies. We’re curious about what you find interesting outside work.

We do not discriminate on the basis of caste, race, religion, orientation, gender, physical ability, formal education, age, nationality or any such factors. If you belong to any under-represented community we encourage you to send in your application.

If you’d know a suitable candidate for this opening, kindly refer them to us. If the endorsed candidate is successfully hired we’d be happy to share a referral fee of ₹25,000/- for your gesture.

We are looking for an expert developer (at least 3 years of work experience) to help us with our ongoing and future projects. You could be a full-stack developer, a WordPress/​Drupal developer, or simply, a web developer. If you’re passionate about writing code and wish to grow as a developer while building websites hands-on, we’d love to have you grow alongside us, as we get better at our craft.

Miranj is a web design and development studio based out of New Delhi. We architect information and design radically simple, future-proof websites. We started out in 2011, and have worked on websites for a variety of clients across domains such as film, tech events & conferences, internet advocacy, science outreach, online content publishing, public interest campaigns, and other design studios. We’ve been attending web conferences around the world while also speaking at (and curating) a few in India. We’ve consciously remained small (between 2 – 4 people) while tackling projects collaboratively with peers and freelancers.

Your Responsibilities

• Participating in project planning, strategy and estimation of tasks.
• Information architecture and data modelling, often in the context of a Content Management System (CMS).
• Working closely with designers and suggesting changes based on technical feasibility.
• Translating designs into front-end templates that render as responsive, interactive webpages.
• Building custom features, often to extend CMS functionality by developing plugins.
• Auditing code to meet quality standards expected from modern websites, such as SEO, accessibility, security, etc.
• Optimising websites for performance through caching, image optimisation and other #perf strategies.
• Deploying websites, including setting up and configuring web servers, and related services.
• Migrating websites between servers and data migration across CMSes.
• Maintaining, supporting and upgrading past projects.
• Documenting work and communicating with project teams and clients.
• Learning and staying on top of web standards, development workflows, coding strategies and other industry best practises.

Your work will involve a healthy rotation of all the above. It is not expected that you will stand out at everything on the first day of your job. However, you should already be comfortable with:

• collaborating using version control systems (Git or Mercurial), and
• writing HTML, CSS and JavaScript code and working with third-party front-end libraries, and
• coding templates from a design mockup, and
• installing, developing and deploying a CMS (e.g. WordPress, Craft CMS, Ghost, Kirby, Statamic, Jekyll, Drupal etc.) powered website.

We believe the following traits will play nicely:

• You favour a long-term relationship over a short stint.
• You are eager to take charge and get stuff done.
• You are open to learning and have the ability to pick up new technologies by reading documentation & tutorials.
• You value your commitments.
• You are good at communication, including writing.
• You have an eye for design and a temperament for design thinking.
• You like sharing ideas on how to make work more fun, meaningful and fulfilling.
• You appreciate coffee and love mountains.

What’s on offer?

• A healthy compensation, proportionate to the value you can bring to us.
• A cool office, with a stocked pantry, which doubles up as a small co-working space.
• An annual pilgrimage to the mountains, to rejuvenate from the stresses of work and city life.
• Opportunity to work with modern systems and software, with continuous learning.
• Medical insurance.
• A culture that values reason and debate over authority; autonomy over control; slow and considered decision-making over fast and hasty; and a healthy work-life balance.

How to apply?

Just fill out this form. We recommend skipping your résumé or CV and keeping the application informal. Point us to 2 or 3 past web projects that you’re proud of. For each one, mention the project duration, your role, and your contribution. In addition, please share your online presence (such as Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website/​Blog). And oh, do mention your hobbies. We’re curious about what you find interesting outside work.

Please ensure that you’ve included active links to projects for us to take your application under consideration.

We do not discriminate on the basis of caste, race, religion, orientation, gender, physical ability, formal education, age, nationality or any such factors.