iOS Developer

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 are looking for an iOS Developer to join our mobile engineering team and contribute to the development of high quality, performant iOS applications across TEGNA’s portfolio of media properties. In this role, you will work within a cross functional pod, building features, fixing defects, and collaborating with product, design, backend, and QA teammates to deliver polished mobile experiences to millions of users. You will focus on implementing features, writing clean and testable code, and growing your skills as part of a team that values ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement. You will receive mentorship from Senior Developers and Team Leads while contributing meaningfully to sprint delivery and platform quality.

This is a hybrid position based in Knoxville, TN, with regular in person collaboration alongside engineers across mobile, backend, streaming, and quality teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and maintain iOS features using Swift, SwiftUI, and UIKit
• Implement features according to acceptance criteria and design specifications, delivering
clean and maintainable code
• Participate actively in sprint planning, daily standups, estimation, grooming, and
retrospectives
• Deliver stories to QA by sprint targets, including completing local functional testing, unit
tests, and environment verification before handoff
• Write unit tests alongside feature development and keep CI green
• Collaborate with product owners, designers, backend engineers, and QA to deliver
cohesive end-to-end experiences
• Integrate RESTful APIs and work with backend teams on data contracts and integration
patterns
• Participate in code reviews, both giving and receiving feedback constructively, to
maintain high code quality
• Respond quickly to QA findings and fix bugs within the same sprint cycle
• Create and complete documentation tasks for every story you own
• Support release readiness by ensuring your work is tested, documented, and deployable
• Surface blockers, dependencies, and technical concerns early in standups and planning
• Use AI assisted development tools to accelerate work while retaining full responsibility
for correctness and quality
• Learn from Senior Developers and Team Leads, actively seeking feedback on design
decisions and code quality and when finished early, help teammates with carry and QA failures before pulling future
work

Requirements

• 3 plus years of professional iOS development experience on production, client-facing
applications
• Solid proficiency in Swift, with working knowledge of SwiftUI and UIKit
• Understanding of common iOS architecture patterns such as MVVM or similar
approaches
• Experience integrating with RESTful APIs and working with asynchronous data flows
• Familiarity with unit testing practices and modern mobile build and release pipelines
• Comfortable working in Agile environments with short, iterative release cycles
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative, ownership driven mindset
• Willingness to learn, grow, and take on increasing technical responsibility over time
Bonus Points
• Experience with video playback, HLS streaming, or ad tech frameworks
• Familiarity with feature flags, experimentation, and analytics tooling
• Experience working in multi app or multi brand iOS environments
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or Fastlane
• Interest in contributing to shared platform libraries or frameworks

Why Join Us
You will join an engineering organization that is evolving toward smaller, empowered pods with clear ownership and strong technical standards. At TEGNA, you will help build mobile
experiences used by millions of users while working alongside talented engineers on meaningful products. You will have the opportunity to grow your skills, take on increasing ownership, and contribute to the evolution of our mobile platform

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 TEGNA’s 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 doctor’s 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.

EEO statement:

TEGNA Inc. is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, hiring and developing individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences to add to our collaborative culture. We value and consider applications from all qualified candidates without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, disability, medical condition, enrollment in college or vocational school, political affiliation, military or veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. TEGNA will reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable law. If you are in need of an accommodation in order to submit your application, please email [email protected]

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