Senior Mobile Engineer

Role Description

Mobile is one of the most visible bets we're making, and you'd own it. There's no existing travel advisor app to maintain. You would have an immense amount of influence on the patterns and priorities. You’ll iterate on how mobile works at Tern, ship in front of every advisor every single week, and watch the team build on the foundation you set. If you want a surface that's truly yours at a company moving this fast, this is it.

Advisors run their business on Tern. Right now they do it from a laptop, the next chapter is in their pocket. An advisor mobile app that lets them check a booking, message a client, and keep a trip moving from wherever they are is the future. We want it in advisors’ hands this year.

• This is a build-from-the-ground role. You'll own the mobile app end to end.
• The native shell, the native functionality, the embedded web views where they make sense, and the Rails APIs underneath.
• The "I'm blocked waiting on my endpoint" dynamic doesn't work here. The person who owns the screen owns the API behind it.
• You’ll work with another paired engineer and PM/design partners to build on mobile over time.
• Part of the job is leaving behind patterns for platform library usage, web views, release, and on-call, so everyone can move fast.
• You'll ship every week, own what you ship in production, and set the standard for how mobile gets built at Tern.

Qualifications

• Shipped mobile ownership: You've personally shipped a mobile app to the App Store and/or Play Store and kept it healthy after launch.
• Full-stack range: You're comfortable writing the backend and the screen.
• Pragmatic about the toolkit: You've worked across native and hybrid, and you make a clear-eyed call on when an embedded web view is the right answer.
• High agency: You've taken ambiguous, under-specified problems and driven them to a working outcome without someone managing the steps.
• AI in your daily workflow: Specific examples of where AI made your work faster or better.

Requirements

• Comfortable in Ruby on Rails or a comparable MVC backend.
• Experience standing up a mobile app and its release process from zero.
• Background at a smaller company or startup where you owned a product surface end to end.
• Built consumer or pro-tool apps where reliability and polish mattered.

Benefits

• Be part of a mission-driven team transforming the travel planning space.
• Work with a supportive, curious, and creative team.
• Influence and shape our mobile engineering approach from the ground up.
• Competitive salary, equity, and benefits package.