Sr Python Full Stack Engineer

Senior Python Full Stack 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 than 100 million people monthly across the web, mobile apps, streaming, and linear television. Together, we are building a sustainable future for local news.

TEGNA is seeking a Senior Python Full Stack Developer to design, build, and scale secure, resilient services and user-facing applications that power our content platform, APIs, digital products, and data-driven workflows. You will lead initiatives across a modular, cloud-native architecture supporting media asset management, editorial tooling, content curation, and personalized user experiences. This is a hands-on role with significant impact across backend services, modern frontend stacks, and the DevOps toolchain.

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.

Basic Qualifications:

• 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 Qualifications:

• 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.