Senior Mobile Engineer

Tern Travel

7d•$180,000 - $210,000

About The Position

Tern is seeking a Senior Mobile Engineer to own the development of their advisor mobile app from the ground up. This role involves end-to-end responsibility for the native shell, hybrid surfaces, embedded web views, and the underlying Rails APIs. The engineer will be responsible for shipping working features weekly, establishing build and release pipelines, managing the app store process, and setting mobile engineering standards. This is a high-impact role with significant influence on the mobile product's direction and foundation.

Requirements

Shipped mobile ownership: You've personally shipped a mobile app to the App Store and/or Play Store and kept it healthy after launch. You have real stories about what broke in production and how you fixed it for good.
Full-stack range: You're comfortable writing the backend and the screen. You've built or extended the APIs your app consumed, and "blocked on my endpoint" isn't a phrase you reach for.
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. You optimize for what ships and holds up, not for purity.
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, with the judgment to question its output rather than ship it wholesale.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Own the advisor mobile app end to end including the native shell, hybrid surfaces, embedded web views, and the Rails APIs behind them
Get a usable app into advisors' hands as soon as possible by shipping working pieces every single week along the way
Build and extend the Rails APIs the app depends on, rather than waiting for someone else to spec them
Iterate on the foundations the team will live with by developing the build and release pipeline, app store process, crash reporting, and on-call for mobile
Establish the hybrid and web-view patterns that two advisor pairs and a new designer can build on
Watch your app in production and catch issues before advisors do