<p style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Lee Enterprises is seeking a skilled <strong>Application Developer</strong> to design, build, and maintain applications that support our <strong>subscription, payment, circulation, and news systems</strong>. </span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">This role is focused on <strong>building and managing integrations between systems</strong>, connecting internal platforms and third-party services to enable seamless data flow, automation, and operational efficiency. The ideal candidate stays current with emerging trends in <strong>AI-driven development, modern engineering practices, and secure application design</strong>, and applies them effectively in a production environment.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Key Responsibilities</span></strong></span></p>
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<li style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Design, develop, and maintain <strong>integration services and APIs</strong> connecting subscription, payment, circulation, and news platforms</span></li>
<li style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Implement and enhance payment workflows, including integrations such as <strong>Adyen and Apple Pay</strong></span></li>
<li style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Build and maintain data exchange processes between internal systems and external providers</span></li>
<li style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Automate workflows, scripts, and reporting processes to reduce manual operational tasks</span></li>
<li style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Develop and maintain internal tools to support operational visibility and configuration</span></li>
<li style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Apply modern development practices, including <strong>AI-assisted coding and automation tooling</strong></span></li>
<li style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ensure integrations are <strong>secure, reliable, and scalable</strong>, balancing speed with risk management</span></li>
<li style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Improve and standardize integration patterns, architecture, and engineering practices</span></li>
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<li style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Experience building and maintaining <strong>APIs and system integrations</strong></span></li>
<li style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Familiarity with <strong>third-party integrations</strong>, especially payment platforms (Adyen, Stripe, etc.)</span></li>
<li style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Strong understanding of <strong>RESTful services, data exchange, and system interoperability</strong></span></li>
<li style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Experience with <strong>automation, scripting, and process optimization</strong></span></li>
<li style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Understanding of <strong>secure coding practices and application security principles</strong></span></li>
<li style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Familiarity with <strong>AI-assisted development tools</strong> (e.g., Copilot, code generation tools)</span></li>
<li style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Experience using <strong>Git and modern development workflows</strong></span></li>
<li style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ability to work independently and deliver high-quality solutions</span></li>
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<p style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Nice to Have</span></strong></span></p>
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<li style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Experience with <strong>event-driven or message-based architectures</strong></span></li>
<li style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Experience with <strong>cloud platforms (Azure, GCP, AWS)</strong></span></li>
<li style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Familiarity with <strong>CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices</strong></span></li>
<li style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Exposure to <strong>subscription, circulation, or media systems</strong></span></li>
<li style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Experience evaluating and adopting <strong>emerging development tools and frameworks</strong></span></li>
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<p style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">What We’re Looking For</span></strong></span></p>
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<li style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">An engineer who stays current with <strong>AI-driven development practices and tools</strong></span></li>
<li style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Strong ability to <strong>build and manage integrations across multiple systems</strong></span></li>
<li style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Someone who balances <strong>productivity gains from modern tooling with strong security practices</strong></span></li>
<li style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A developer who values <strong>maintainable architecture, reliability, and long-term system health</strong></span></li>
<li style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ownership mindset with a focus on delivering <strong>scalable, production-ready solutions</strong></span></li>
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<p style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Why Join the Lee Enterprises IT Team?</span></strong></span></p>
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<li style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Work on critical systems that directly impact <strong>revenue and customer experience</strong></span></li>
<li style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Opportunity to modernize and streamline <strong>integration architecture across platforms</strong></span></li>
<li style="color: black; line-height: 15pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Engineering-focused environment with autonomy and ownership</span></li>
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<p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="white-space-collapse: collapse;"><strong>Why Join Us?</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="white-space-collapse: collapse;">Lee Enterprises offers competitive wages in a dynamic, interesting work environment with career growth opportunities. We offer an extensive benefit program that can be personalized to your needs. Our benefit program includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, company provided life insurance and supplemental life insurance. In addition, we offer a 401K retirement plan with company match. We also offer generous paid time off to allow the flexibility to balance personal life and work. This includes paid parental leave for new parents. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="white-space-collapse: collapse;">Lee Enterprises is a leading provider of local news and information and a major subscription and advertising platform, with daily and weekly newspapers and rapidly expanding digital products serving 114 markets across 25 states. Our core commitment is to provide valuable, intensely local news and information to the communities we serve.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="white-space-collapse: collapse;">Lee Enterprises is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We respect and celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="white-space-collapse: collapse;">For more information about Lee, check us out at www.lee.net.</span></span></p>
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