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 than 100 million people monthly across the web, mobile apps, streaming, and linear television. Together, we are building a sustainable future for local news.

We’re looking for a Fire TV Team Lead to own the day‑to‑day technical execution and delivery of our Fire TV streaming applications. In this role, you’ll 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. You’ll spend time writing code while also managing developers, driving sprint planning & execution, owning releases, and ensuring quality and operational readiness. You’ll 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

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

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…