Senior Python Full Stack Developer

Job Title: Senior Python Full Stack Engineer

Location-Type: Tyson, VA- 3 days per week

Start Date: 2 weeks from offer

Duration: Full Time

TEGNA is seeking a Senior Python Full Stack Developer to design, build, and scale secure, resilient services and user-facing applications that power our content platform, APIs, digital products, and data-driven workflows. You will lead initiatives across a modular, cloud-native architecture supporting media asset management, editorial tooling, content curation, and personalized user experiences. This is a hands-on role with significant impact across backend services, modern frontend stacks, and the DevOps toolchain.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, develop, and deploy Python microservices and APIs within an event-driven, cloud-native ecosystem.
• Build and maintain user-facing applications using a modern JavaScript framework (e.g., React) integrated with Python backends
• Lead technical design reviews, establish coding standards, and mentor engineers across onshore/offshore teams.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery, improve documentation, and increase test coverage.
• Collaborate with Product, DevOps, Security, Data/ML, and Architecture teams to deliver well-integrated, observable, and maintainable solutions.
• Drive reliability and performance: implement robust monitoring, tracing, and alerting; identify and resolve bottlenecks; champion SLOs and error budgets.
• Own quality end-to-end: write clean, well-tested code; design contract-first APIs; expand unit, integration, and contract tests; and implement test automation.
• Reduce technical debt through proactive refactoring, decomposition, and platform standardization.
• Contribute to and improve CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and infrastructure automation.
• Participate in agile ceremonies (scrums, planning, reviews, retrospectives) and contribute to clear technical documentation.

Basic Qualifications

• 5-8 years of professional software engineering experience building backend services in Python and Azure/AWS.
• Solid experience with microservices architecture, event-driven patterns, and cloud-native principles.
• Proficiency with databases and datastores.
• Experience with containerization, orchestration, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and terraform.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, asynchronous processing, idempotency, and resiliency patterns.
• Frontend familiarity with React(or similar), TypeScript/JavaScript, component/state management, and modern build tooling.
• Hands-on with Git, trunk/branching strategies, code reviews, and CI/CD (GitHub Actions or similar).
• Familiarity with observability stacks (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK, Datadog, New Relic) and performance tuning.
• Experienced with automation and testing.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills with a bias toward action and continuous improvement.

Requirements

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with event streaming and messaging patterns.
• API design best practices (OpenAPI/Swagger), API gateways, and rate limiting/authorization strategies.
• Security-first mindset secure SDLC practices.
• IaC experience and GitOps
• Data and ML integration experience (batch/stream processing, feature stores) is a plus.
• Familiarity with media/content platforms or high-traffic consumer digital products.