Senior Microservices Developer

TEGNA Inc. • Knoxville, TN

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About The Position

TEGNA is seeking a Senior Developer to contribute to the development and enhancement of microservices for its Content Management platform. This platform is responsible for managing and delivering content to a large user base and operates on Azure using C#/.NET Function Apps with Azure Service Bus and Akamai. The role involves designing and implementing services, ensuring high code quality, and mentoring other engineers. The Senior Developer will collaborate with the CMS Solutions Architect to translate technical requirements into well-structured services and work with the Cloud Architect on infrastructure aspects.

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.

Nice To Haves

• Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform is a plus.
• Media, streaming, high-traffic content platforms, or Graph-RAG content systems experience is a plus.

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.

Benefits

• Two medical plan options for full and part-time employees through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas
• Access to dental and eye care coverage
• Fertility, surrogacy and adoption assistance
• Disability and life insurance
• 401(k) program with company match (100% match up to the first 4% of pay, 100% vested from day one)
• Nine free virtual doctor’s appointments with a physician through Teladoc (for all employees and eligible family members)
• 12 free annual therapy sessions with a licensed clinician through Spring Health (for all employees and eligible family members)
• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Nine paid holidays per year

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed