Senior Microservices Developer

About the role

About TEGNA

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 than 100 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 TEGNA's 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. You'll 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. You'll 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 You'll be a senior technical voice on the team building TEGNA's 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 TEGNA's 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.