Tern Software
Senior Mobile Engineer
$180K–$210K
United States · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 1, 2026
About the job
Build and own Tern’s advisor mobile app end to end, including its native and hybrid experience, Rails APIs, release process, and production reliability.
What you'll do
- Ship app features weekly and build or extend the Rails APIs they depend on.
- Establish mobile build, release, app-store, crash-reporting, and on-call practices and patterns.
- Monitor the app in production and resolve issues.
What they ask for
- Personally shipped a mobile app to the App Store and/or Play Store and maintained it after launch.
- Experience building or extending APIs consumed by a mobile app.
- Experience with both native and hybrid mobile development, including deciding when to use embedded web views.
- Examples of independently delivering ambiguous work and using AI thoughtfully in daily development.
Nice to have
- Comfort with Ruby on Rails or a comparable MVC backend.
- Experience launching a mobile app and release process from zero.
Pay
$180K – $210K (base salary)
Tools
Ruby on Rails, Hotwire, Postgres, Heroku, Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery, Hex, Claude Code
AI focus
Use AI in daily development for tasks such as design review, test generation, and debugging; the company is also building agentic and MCP-based tooling.
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