TEGNA is seeking a Senior Python Full Stack Developer to design, build, and scale secure, resilient services and user-facing applications that power their content platform, APIs, digital products, and data-driven workflows.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend services in Python and Azure/AWS.
- Solid experience with microservices architecture, event-driven patterns, and cloud-native principles.
- Proficiency with databases and datastores.
- Experience with containerization, orchestration, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and terraform.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, asynchronous processing, idempotency, and resiliency patterns.
- Frontend familiarity with React(or similar), TypeScript/JavaScript, component/state management, and modern build tooling.
- Hands-on with Git, trunk/branching strategies, code reviews, and CI/CD (GitHub Actions or similar).
Responsibilities
- Architect, design, develop, and deploy Python microservices and APIs within an event-driven, cloud-native ecosystem.
- Build and maintain user-facing applications using a modern JavaScript framework (e.g., React) integrated with Python backends
- Lead technical design reviews, establish coding standards, and mentor engineers across onshore/offshore teams.
- Leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery, improve documentation, and increase test coverage.
- Collaborate with Product, DevOps, Security, Data/ML, and Architecture teams to deliver well-integrated, observable, and maintainable solutions.
- Drive reliability and performance: implement robust monitoring, tracing, and alerting; identify and resolve bottlenecks; champion SLOs and error budgets.
- Own quality end-to-end: write clean, well-tested code; design contract-first APIs; expand unit, integration, and contract tests; and implement test automation.
Other
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills with a bias toward action and continuous improvement.
- Participate in agile ceremonies (scrums, planning, reviews, retrospectives) and contribute to clear technical documentation.
- Familiarity with media/content platforms or high-traffic consumer digital products.
- Security-first mindset secure SDLC practices.
- hiring and developing individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences to add to our collaborative culture.
