Team Lead - Fire TV

TEGNA Inc.•Knoxville, TN

3h•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 Fire TV Team Lead to own the day-to-day technical execution and delivery of our Fire TV streaming applications. In this role, you’ll lead a pod of engineers responsible for building, releasing, and operating Fire TV experiences that deliver reliable live and VOD streaming to millions of users. This is a hands-on leadership role. You’ll spend time writing code while also managing developers, driving sprint planning & execution, owning releases, and ensuring quality and operational readiness. You’ll partner closely with product, backend, infrastructure, and QA teams to deliver consistent playback behavior and a high-quality user experience on Fire TV devices. This is a hybrid position based in Knoxville, TN, with regular collaboration across multiple teams.

Requirements

5 plus years of professional Android or Fire TV development experience
2 plus years of experience leading developers or owning delivery for a team
Strong experience building and shipping Fire TV applications
Deep understanding of video playback, streaming behavior, and CTV constraints
Experience owning releases and responding to production issues
Strong communication skills and a collaborative leadership style
Ability to balance hands on development with execution and people leadership

Nice To Haves

Experience with live streaming, VOD, and ad supported playback on Fire TV
Familiarity with performance optimization on CTV devices
Experience working in a multi-platform CTV environment
Exposure to automation or test frameworks for Android based platforms

Responsibilities

Directly manage day-to-day developer execution within the Fire TV teams
Own sprint planning, backlog readiness, and day to day execution
Coordinate work across the pods and manage dependencies
Act as the primary technical decision maker for Fire TV implementations
Provide regular feedback, coaching, and development support to team members
Design, develop, and maintain Fire TV applications using Kotlin and React Native
Own Fire TV specific application behavior, performance, and stability
Ensure consistent implementation of shared playback and app patterns
Partner with backend and infrastructure teams on APIs and playback integration
Own release planning and execution for Fire TV applications
Submit builds to distribution channels and manage rollout strategies
Monitor analytics, crash reporting, and playback metrics post release
Triage and coordinate response to issues discovered after release
Lead hotfixes, rollbacks, or mitigations when needed
Ensure high code quality through reviews, standards, and best practices
Partner with QA and automation engineers to improve test coverage and release confidence
Drive improvements in testability, monitoring, and observability within the Fire TV app
Identify technical debt and reliability risks and prioritize remediation
Work closely with Product, Design, Backend, Streaming, and QA teams
Coordinate delivery with other CTV platform leads to maintain consistency
Communicate risks, tradeoffs, and delivery status clearly

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.

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