Senior Microservices Developer

TEGNA Inc. helps people thrive in their local communities by providing the trusted local news and services that matter most. With 64 television stations in 51 U.S. markets TEGNA reaches more than100 million people monthly across the web mobile apps streaming and linear television. Together we are building a sustainable future for local news.

We are looking for a Senior Developer to help build and evolve the microservices behind TEGNAs Content Management platform the systems that ingest manage and deliver content to millions of users. Our content management side runs on Azure; C#/.NET Function Apps with a Service Bus event backbone fronted by Akamai. Youll be a technical anchor on the team: designing and implementing services setting the bar for code quality and structure and mentoring mid-level and offshore engineers. Youll take the tech briefs and epics that come from the CMS Solutions Architect and shape them into well-structured services partnering with the Cloud Architect on how those designs are realized in infrastructure.

Responsibilities:
Design build and operate C#/.NET microservices primarily as Azure Function Apps that power content management workflows.
Own event-driven service design using Azure Service Bus modeling messages and handling idempotency ordering retries and failure gracefully.
Lead technical design for meaningful features and services and set standards for code quality testing and observability across the team.
Mentor mid-level and offshore developers raising the overall technical maturity of the team.
Help convert epics into actionable well-architected stories alongside the team lead.
Drive the modernization of legacy content systems into scalable maintainable event-driven services.
Partner with the CMS Solutions Architect and the Cloud Architect and cloud team (who own infrastructure realization CI/CD and standards).
Work cloud-native in an Agile/Scrum team with disciplined source control.

Requirements:
5 years of professional software engineering experience building production backend services.
Strong hands-on expertise in C#/.NET including serverless/Azure Functions and RESTful API design.
Solid experience with event-driven and messaging architectures (Azure Service Bus queues or equivalent pub/sub systems).
Strong understanding of distributed-systems fundamentals: reliability idempotency concurrency and observability and a genuine concern for code structure and design.
Production experience running cloud-native services in Azure and/or AWS.
A track record of mentoring engineers and elevating team practices.
Fluent in Agile/Scrum delivery and Git-based source control; exposure to Docker Kubernetes and Terraform is a plus.
Media streaming high-traffic content platforms or Graph-RAG content systems experience is a plus.

Why Join TEGNA
Youll be a senior technical voice on the team building TEGNAs content management platform at scale in a modern Azure/AWS hybrid environment. This is an opportunity to shape the services and the engineering practices that power content across all of TEGNAs media properties. We are investing heavily in AI-assisted development modern cloud-native services and flexible architecture patterns that let our teams innovate quickly while delivering high-quality high-impact products.

TEGNA offers comprehensive benefits designed to safeguard the physical mental and financial health of our employees and their families. TEGNA offers two medical plan options for full and part-time employees through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas as well as access to dental and eye care coverage; fertility surrogacy and adoption assistance; disability and life insurance.

Our 401(k) program offers full part-time and temporary employees the opportunity to contribute 1% - 80% of their pay on a pre-tax basis to TEGNAs 401(k). Contributions made up to the first 4% of pay are eligible for a 100% match from the company and are 100% vested from day one.

Regardless of participation in TEGNA medical plans ALL employees and their eligible family members receive nine free virtual doctors appointments with a physician through Teladoc and 12 free annual therapy sessions with a licensed clinician through Spring Health.

TEGNA offers a generous Paid Time Off (PTO) benefit as well as nine paid holidays per year.

* Some jobs are covered by a collective bargaining agreement and thus some or all of the benefits described herein may not apply. For example some newsroom bargaining unit employees receive health and retirement benefits under plans administered by the union.

EEO statement:

TEGNA Inc. is a proud equal opportunity employer. We areproud to be an equal opportunity employer hiring and developing individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences to add to our collaborative culture. We value and consider applications from all qualified candidates without regard to actual or perceived race color religion national origin sex gender age marital status personal appearance sexual orientation gender identity or expression family responsibilities disability medical condition enrollment in college or vocational school political affiliation military or veteran status citizenship status genetic information or any other basis protected by federal state or local law. TEGNA will reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with disabilitiesin accordance with applicable law. If you are in need of an accommodation in order to submit your application please email

Recruiting Fraud Alert:

To all candidates: your personal information and online safety are important to us. Only TEGNA Recruiters or Hiring Managers will reach out to you regarding consideration of your application or background. Communications with TEGNA employees will either come from a TEGNA email address with a domain of or one of our affiliate station domains.

Recruiters or Hiring Managers will never request payments ask for financial account information or sensitive information such as social security numbers.