Senior Microservices Developer

We are looking for a Senior Developer to help build and evolve the microservices behind TEGNA’s Content Management platform - the systems that ingest, manage, and deliver content to millions of users. Our content management side runs on Azure; C#/.NET Function Apps with a Service Bus event backbone, fronted by Akamai. You’ll be a technical anchor on the team: designing and implementing services, setting the bar for code quality and structure, and mentoring mid-level and offshore engineers. You’ll take the tech briefs and epics that come from the CMS Solutions Architect and shape them into well-structured services, partnering with the Cloud Architect on how those designs are realized in infrastructure., * 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.

• 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.

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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