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Senior Software Engineer

Tern · United States · Remote

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About Tern

Plan Less. Get Out More. AI planning for everyday life. Backed by Techstars.

About the role

Ship working, tested integration features every week, broken into the smallest shippable pieces Contribute to the abstractions, tooling, and AI-assisted workflows that make each new integration or feature faster than the last

What they're looking for

  • Full-stack range: Track record of owning features across the stack, backend data modeling, business logic, and front-end UI, not just one layer. You're comfortable moving between a schema migration and a UI polish pass in the same week
  • Ruby on Rails fluency: Real production experience in Rails or a comparable MVC framework. You know the conventions, you know where they break down, and you know when to bend them
  • High agency: You've taken ambiguous, underspecified problems and driven them to a working outcome without someone managing the steps
  • Product sense: You care about what you're building, not just how. You push back on a spec when the user experience doesn't add up
  • Reliability instincts: You think in edge cases, failure modes, and observability by default. Production monitoring is part of how you build, not something you bolt on after
  • AI in your daily workflow: Specific examples of where AI made you faster or better. You use it to move fast while questioning its output
More about this role

Every single feature we ship weekly puts more of the travel industry inside a single platform. If you want to own the build, ship every single week , and win this $1.6T travel booking industry with a low ego, AI native team, we should talk.

Tern is a venture-backed software company on a mission to reshape the $127B travel agency industry by giving power back to the entrepreneurs who built it.

Nearly 98% of travel agencies are small businesses. These businesses have been chronically underserved by technology. We're here to change that. Our platform helps travel advisors run more efficient, professional, and profitable operations, giving them the modern infrastructure they need to lead the next chapter of travel.

But the impact goes beyond business. Travel advisors help clients move more intentionally through the world. When a traveler works with an advisor, they're more likely to avoid overtouristed hotspots and more likely to spend their dollars in places where they can do real good. That's the kind of travel we want more of.

At Tern, we believe in small business. We believe in the power of travel. And we're building the future of both.

We're growing the product engineering team...

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