Fire TV-React Native Developer at Tegnainc

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 seeking a skilled React Native Developer to build and evolve our Fire TV streaming application as Amazon transitions to Vega OS, their new operating system with React Native as the supported development platform. In this role, you will work with a cross-functional team to build and optimize performance-driven user interfaces for large-screen living room experiences, delivering reliable live and VOD video playback to millions of viewers. This role sits within our Streaming Applications domain, which owns CTV product delivery across Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, Samsung, and other connected TV platforms. You’ll partner closely with backend services, streaming infrastructure, QA, and product teams to deliver high-quality experiences that integrate with our microservices platform, including content feeds, personalization engines, and ad insertion services. This is a hybrid position based in Knoxville, TN, with regular in-office collaboration across engineering, product, and streaming teams. Responsibilities: • Build and maintain React Native applications tailored for Amazon Fire TV and the upcoming Vega OS platform • Optimize for performance on large screens, including remote navigation (DPAD), lean-back UI patterns, focus management, and smooth scrolling behavior • Integrate with native modules and custom Android code for Fire TV-specific features and platform APIs • Implement video playback functionality using HLS streams for live and VOD content • Integrate SSAI/DAI ad tech via AWS MediaTailor, CDP SDKs such as RudderStack, and other CTV-related tools • Integrate with RESTful APIs, content feeds, and other microservices • Collaborate with backend, design, QA, and product teams to define and deliver intuitive CTV user experiences • Address platform-specific quirks across Fire TV device models and optimize memory, performance, and stability • Write clean, modular, and testable code with unit tests and integration tests, and participate in code reviews to maintain high code quality • Work within CI/CD pipelines for continuous testing and release using GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps • Follow the team’s sprint operating model • Use AI tools such as Claude Code and other AI-assisted development tools to accelerate code generation, test authoring, and documentation • Contribute to release management processes including app store submissions, rollout strategies, and post-release monitoring • Monitor production health using observability tools such as New Relic, and drive timely remediation of issues discovered after release Requirements: • 3-5 years of professional experience with React Native • Proven experience building and shipping apps for Fire TV or Android-based CTV platforms • Solid understanding of native module bridging in React Native with an Android focus • Experience with video playback technologies, streaming architecture, and HLS • Familiarity with ad tech integration patterns including server-side ad insertion • Experience integrating with RESTful APIs and cloud-native backend services • Experience working in Agile teams with short, iterative release cycles and collaborating with product, design, and QA • Comfortable debugging device-specific issues across Fire TV hardware variants and Fire OS versions • Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and modern development workflows • Strong communication and team collaboration skills Nice to Have • Experience with Amazon’s Vega OS or early adoption of React Native for TV platforms • Experience with other CTV platforms such as Roku, Apple TV, Android TV, Samsung, or LG • Familiarity with analytics and event tracking tools such as RudderStack • Experience with feature flags, experimentation tooling, and A/B testing (e.g., LaunchDarkly) • Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as New Relic • Experience with authentication flows (OAuth 2.0, Auth0) in CTV environments Why Join Us Join an engineering team committed to excellence, innovation, and continuous growth. At TEGNA, you’ll contribute directly to redefining digital media experiences while helping shape a culture built on openness, shared understanding, and deep user empathy. You’ll play a key role in developing our Fire TV platform and be working on streaming applications used by millions of viewers. We are investing heavily in AI-assisted development, modern cloud-native services, and flexible architecture patterns that allow our teams to innovate quickly while delivering high-quality, high-impact products. You’ll work alongside smart, motivated people on impactful products that serve real users every day. Relocation assistance available for qualified candidates. 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. 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