Tern Software
Senior Software Engineer
$175K–$200K
United States · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 3, 2026
About the job
Build and own full-stack product features for Tern’s travel-advisor platform, shipping tested work weekly and supporting it in production.
What you'll do
- Ship working, tested integration features in small, weekly releases.
- Improve abstractions, tooling, and AI-assisted workflows for future features.
- Support and mentor other engineers through constructive code reviews and early context sharing.
What they ask for
- Track record of owning features across backend data modeling, business logic, and front-end UI.
- Production experience with Ruby on Rails or a comparable MVC framework.
- Ability to drive ambiguous problems to working outcomes independently.
- Daily use of AI in work, with specific examples and critical evaluation of its output.
Nice to have
- Experience with Hotwire, Turbo, or Stimulus.
- Comfort with third-party integrations or experience on a small, fast-moving product team.
Pay
$175K – $200K USD base salary
Tools
Ruby on Rails, Hotwire, Postgres, Heroku, Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery, Hex, Claude Code
AI focus
Use AI in daily engineering work and contribute to AI-assisted workflows and agentic and MCP-based tooling.
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