Forward Deployed Integration Engineer
Tern
| Company | Tern |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | United States |
| Remote | Remote |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Not stated |
| Salary | USD 140k–170k |
| Posted | 22 Jun 2026 |
| Last verified | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (ashby) |
Description
Tern can sign agencies faster than it can bring them on. The bottleneck isn't sales, it's that every migration still leans on manual work that should be a tool. If turning slow, repetitive, error-prone processes into infrastructure that just runs sounds deeply satisfying, let's talk.
ABOUT TERN
Tern is a venture-backed software company on a mission to reshape the $127B travel agency industry by giving power back to the entrepreneurs who built it.
Nearly 98% of travel agencies are small businesses. These businesses have been chronically underserved by technology. We're here to change that. Our platform helps travel advisors run more efficient, professional, and profitable operations, giving them the modern infrastructure they need to lead the next chapter of travel.
But the impact goes beyond business. Travel advisors help clients move more intentionally through the world. When a traveler works with an advisor, they're more likely to avoid overtouristed hotspots and more likely to spend their dollars in places where they can do real good. That's the kind of travel we want more of.
At Tern, we believe in small business. We believe in the power of travel. And we're building the future of both.
FORWARD DEPLOYED INTEGRATION ENGINEER
We think AI has changed what a migration can be. The work that used to mean cleaning data by hand, babysitting syncs, and fixing the same problem one record at a time is becoming something a small team can run at scale. You'd be at the front of that. This is a chance to define what data migration looks like in an AI world, not to maintain how it worked in the old one.
You'd sit with our customer-facing implementation team and own the full migration, from the first look at an agency's legacy systems to the moment their data is live and reconciled in Tern. This is a forward deployed role. You'll be in the real mess of a customer's data, piecing together an itinerary builder, a back-office accounting system, and a reporting platform that were never built to talk to each other.
You have two jobs, and they feed each other.
First, get each agency migrated and reconciled. The numbers in Tern match the numbers in the old system exactly, and you get there fast. Migration is the one thing standing between a signed agency and a producing one, so speed here is growth.
Second, build the system that makes the next migration faster than the last. You'll work with a team already leading on this, combining deterministic tooling with AI-native onboarding to turn a handful of agencies a week into many a day. Most companies are still doing this by hand. We're building the version that doesn't have to.
If you want to define a category rather than inherit one, this is the seat.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Own end-to-end migrations for real agencies alongside the implementation team: pull data from itinerary builders, back-office accounting systems, and reporting platforms, and land it clean in Tern
- Build the reconciliation layer that proves, penny for penny, that Tern matches the source, and surfaces every discrepancy before the customer does
- Combine deterministic tooling and AI to collapse the manual work in a migration, so the team onboards far more agencies without adding people
- Own and harden the partner-network sync infrastructure and one-way agency syncs: keep advisor data flowing reliably, catch the cases where syncs silently drift, and bring fragile no-code flows in-house as maintainable code
- Consolidate scattered, per-integration logic into shared infrastructure so changes propagate the same way everywhere instead of failing quietly
- Keep the pipeline fast, idempotent, and safe at the volumes scaling demands
WHAT YOU HAVE
- Backend and data-pipeline engineering. Strong in a backend stack and SQL, with real experience building data pipelines and background-job systems that run reliably at volume. We're Rails, Sidekiq, dbt, and BigQuery.
- An AI-native way of working. You already