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.

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.

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.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k) matching, and paid time off.
• Access to Teladoc virtual doctor's appointments and Spring Health therapy sessions.