Northern Trust
Lead, SW Full Stack Eng (Finance)
Northern Trust provides innovative financial services and guidance to corporations, institutions and affluent families and individuals globally. With 130 years of financial experience and nearly 20,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service. Today, we are going through a metamorphosis - starting with our Wealth Management business where we are embracing Agile ways of working and exploring new technologies like cloud, analytics, microservices architecture, etc. Last but not least, our advanced Digital design systems enable us to put our valued customers at the heart of our user experience.
WHY US
As a Northern Trust partner, you will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture, which has a strong history of financial strength and stability. Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company that is committed to strengthening the communities we serve.
Our talented, driven and energetic people are truly changing the face of Northern Trust. The speed with which we work, the influence of each partner and the focus to positively change the client experience is our common passion. People are our greatest Wealth, so if you have a genuine desire to work in a fast-paced, Agile, inclusive environment which values teamwork, well-honed problem-solving skills, deadline management, ongoing and comprehensive communication, constant attention to detail, and a commitment
WHO YOU ARE
As a Lead Developer
you are responsible for leading and developing group of engineers to design and develop technology supporting our product vision. You bring new ideas and modern delivery mindset and able to implementing it in development of the product.
You will act as technical expert and are caught up on industry trends in client-server frameworks, DevSecOps and cloud technologies and also anticipate what the near future will bring.
Furthermore:
• You bring 6+ years of experience with Spring Boot Microservices and Java Hibernate/ORM
• Prior experience leading 6+ full stack engineers
• You are skilled in working with one of the modern JavaScript frameworks (React or Angular)
• You have a strong understanding of APIs and how to use them in practice.
• You have experience with continuous integration and collaboration tools like JIRA, Bitbucket, GitHub and Confluence.
• Knowledge with unit testing and test automation tools and frameworks like JUnit, Jasmine, Jest etc. Our tech stack: Spring Boot Microservices / Java Hibernate / ReactJS / Kafka / JMS / Junit / Oracle / Pivotal Cloud Foundry
WHAT YOU'LL DO
As a partner on the Digital Services team, you will be an integral part of one of our nimble and agile cross-functional teams innovating an entire industry. We cherish and nourish our diverse and inclusive culture and welcome you to help us further grow our community. We are actively exploring emerging technologies in AI, Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics, Blockchain and Decentralized Finance to elevate dozens of products and services which millions of customers use.
As a lead Developer, you will:
• Lead a team of 6 - 8 full stack developers
• Design and develop business functionality in n-tier web applications
• Do code quality checks and champion security first and maintain coding standards.
• Work closely with other developers to design and develop functional, performing and complete features, systems and APIs
• Constantly looks for better ways of solving technical problems and designing the solution by not being afraid of challenging the status quo
• Mentor and coach other developers on the team, specifically with code reviews and pair programming