Team Lead Fire TV

About TEGNA

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 than100 million people monthly across the web mobile apps streaming and linear television. Together we are building a sustainable future for local news.

Were looking for a Fire TV Team Lead to own the day-to-day technical execution and delivery of our Fire TV streaming this role youll 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. Youll spend time writing code while also managing developers driving sprint planning & execution owning releases and ensuring quality and operational readiness. Youll 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.

Responsibilities:

Team and Execution Leadership

• 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

Fire TV Application Development

• 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

Release Ownership and Operations

• 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

Quality and Reliability

• 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

Cross Team Collaboration

• 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

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

Bonus Points

• 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

Why Join Us

Youll join an engineering organization that treats CTV platforms as first class products. At TEGNA youll play a key role in shaping our Fire TV streaming experience while leading a team that owns delivery releases and reliability end to end.

Youll have the opportunity to influence both how we build Fire TV apps and how we scale streaming application development across platforms.

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 TEGNAs 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 doctors 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.

* Some jobs are covered by a collective bargaining agreement and thus some or all of the benefits described herein may not apply. For example some newsroom bargaining unit employees receive health and retirement benefits under plans administered by the union.

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