Senior iOS Developer

TEGNA Inc.•Knoxville, TN

12d•Hybrid

About The Position

TEGNA Inc. (NYSE: TGNA) 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’re looking for a Senior iOS Developer to join our mobile engineering pod model and help deliver high quality, scalable iOS experiences across TEGNA’s portfolio of media properties. In this role, you’ll act as a technical anchor within your pod, owning complex features end to end while partnering closely with product, design, backend, and QA peers. You’ll contribute directly to app development while also helping guide technical decisions, improve platform consistency, and raise the bar for quality and delivery across the broader iOS organization. This is a hybrid position based in Knoxville, TN, with regular in person collaboration alongside engineers across mobile, backend, streaming, and quality teams.

Requirements

5 plus years of professional iOS development experience on production, client facing applications
Strong expertise in Swift, SwiftUI, and UIKit, with the ability to navigate and evolve mixed UI stacks
Experience building and maintaining modular, scalable iOS architectures
Strong understanding of asynchronous programming, networking, and REST based integrations
Experience debugging complex issues and optimizing app performance and stability
Familiarity with automated testing strategies and modern mobile build and release pipelines
Ability to work autonomously within a pod while collaborating effectively across teams
Clear communication skills and a strong sense of ownership

Nice To Haves

Experience with video playback, HLS streaming, or ad tech frameworks
Familiarity with feature flags, experimentation, and analytics tooling
Experience working in multi app or multi brand iOS environments
Prior experience contributing to shared platform libraries or frameworks

Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, and maintain complex iOS features using Swift, SwiftUI, and UIKit
Act as a senior technical contributor within a cross functional pod, owning features from design through release
Provide day to day technical guidance and support to other developers within the pod, helping with design decisions, implementation approaches, and problem solving
Help coordinate work across the pod to ensure dependencies are clear, work is sequenced effectively, and delivery remains on track
Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, backend engineers, and QA to shape solutions that balance user experience, performance, and maintainability
Help guide technical implementation decisions within the pod and align with broader iOS platform standards
Integrate RESTful APIs and collaborate with backend teams on API design and evolution
Ensure high code quality through thoughtful design, unit testing, code reviews, and adherence to platform best practices
Partner with QE resources to improve testability and support automation efforts across the iOS codebase
Contribute to CI and CD pipelines and support a reliable release process
Participate actively in sprint planning, estimation, retrospectives, and cross pod technical discussions
Monitor app performance, crashes, and analytics, and proactively address issues impacting user experience
Identify and help drive down technical debt while balancing delivery commitments
Mentor mid level developers through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance

Benefits

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 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.
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.

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