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TEGNA · 3 months ago

Sr Python Full Stack Engineer

Tysons, Virginia, United States

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

8+ years exp

TEGNA Inc. is a media company that provides trusted local news and services. They are seeking a Senior Python Full Stack Developer to design and build secure services and applications that power their content platform and digital products, while leading initiatives across a cloud-native architecture.

AdvertisingBroadcastingMarketingMedia and EntertainmentTV

H1B Sponsor Likely

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

Reduce technical debt through proactive refactoring, decomposition, and platform standardization

Contribute to and improve CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and infrastructure automation

Participate in agile ceremonies (scrums, planning, reviews, retrospectives) and contribute to clear technical documentation

Qualification

PythonMicroservices architectureCloud platformsReactCI/CDDatabasesContainerizationObservability stacksCommunicationCollaboration skillsLeadership skills

Required

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)

Familiarity with observability stacks (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK, Datadog, New Relic) and performance tuning

Experienced with automation and testing

Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills with a bias toward action and continuous improvement

Preferred

Experience with event streaming and messaging patterns

API design best practices (OpenAPI/Swagger), API gateways, and rate limiting/authorization strategies

Security-first mindset secure SDLC practices

IaC experience and GitOps

Data and ML integration experience (batch/stream processing, feature stores) is a plus

Familiarity with media/content platforms or high-traffic consumer digital products

Benefits

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 TEGNA’s 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 doctor’s 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.

Company

TEGNA

Glassdoor3.7

Tegna provides local news and services through its television stations and offers marketing solutions for businesses.

Founded in 2015

Mclean, Virginia, USA

5001-10000 employees

http://www.tegna.com

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