Senior Software Engineer — AI-Driven Travel Platform

Tern Travel; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Tern Travel is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own real product surfaces end to end across our Rails stack and AI-enabled workflows. You'll work across backend data models, Hotwire front end, background jobs, and external calls, building the agency back office and advisor workflows.

Collaborate with product and design, ship weekly features, observe in production, and grow into broader ownership. We value high agency, hands-on execution, and a bias toward shipping valuable, reliable

Qualifications

• Experience owning features across the stack and shipping end-to-end solutions.
• Production Rails or an equivalent MVC framework experience.
• Proven ability to ship features in ambiguity with strong ownership.

Responsibilities

• Ship working, tested integration features every week, broken into small pieces.
• Contribute to abstractions, tooling, and AI-assisted workflows for faster integrations.
• Improve those around you through code reviews and clear communication.

Skills

Full-stack ownership

Ruby on Rails

High agency

Product sense

Reliability & observability

AI in workflow

Tools

Hotwire

PostgreSQL

Heroku

Google Cloud Platform

BigQuery

Claude Code

Job description

Tern Travel is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own real product surfaces end to end across our Rails stack and AI-enabled workflows. You'll work across backend data models, Hotwire front end, background jobs, and external calls, building the agency back office and advisor workflows.

Collaborate with product and design, ship weekly features, observe in production, and grow into broader ownership. We value high agency, hands-on execution, and a bias toward shipping valuable, reliable