# Senior Software Engineer at Tern

- Company: Tern
- What the company does: Plan Less. Get Out More. AI planning for everyday life. Backed by Techstars.
- Company website: https://travelwithtern.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $175K to $200K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-03
- Apply by: 2026-10-18
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tern/e17bad73-201e-41e7-8ba4-77840288f078
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/tern-senior-software-engineer/

## 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

Tags: Engineering