Senior Python Full Stack Developer

Greenbelt, MD, 20770

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Type: Direct Placement

Reference ID: 31922578

Date Posted: 03/05/2026



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.

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