We are looking for a full stack developer who is eager to join the Northern Trust Asset Servicing Organization team in building next generation cloud native applications for our clients.

You will be part of a diverse and talented software team that is leading our strategic evolution. Project work will be on mission critical applications for a leading international Financial Institution. There will be continual opportunities to work with geographically dispersed teams to develop unique global solutions. The developer will participate in the complete application development lifecycle from concept to implementation.

The Northern Trust Asset Servicing Organization supports a range of end-to-end middle and back office processes that service asset managers and asset owners across the Trade Settlement, Fund Administration, Custody Accounting & Administration and Prime Services.

How Our Team Approaches Work

• Software development at Northern is an interesting mix of green field development and legacy conversions
• Northern software practice strongly believes in Test Driven Development as a means to better code quality
• All Northern cloud native applications are hosted on a PaaS. Exposure to PaaS as a paradigm is a must. Prior experience with PaaS solutions like PCF, Azure, AWS is a plus.
• All new Northern software applications are built to a 12 factor cloud native specification.
• Developers are comfortable working in an open and constantly collaborating iterative work environment

The key responsibilities of the role:

• Design and develop high-volume, low-latency, cloud native applications for mission critical financial systems.
• Ability to follow the 12 factor cloud principles and code all Northern software applications are built on.
• Work in an Agile / SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) environment.
• Actively looking out for new frameworks or libraries in the open source community to better drive development speed and quality at Northern.

Things we believe a successful candidate will have:

• Computer Science or Software Engineering background or degree.
• Ability to be flexible, resourceful, quick to learn and adapt to change.
• Demonstrate initiative, problem solving and ownership.
• Be results oriented and passionate about what you do.
• Attention to detail and strong decision making skills.
• Solid written and active communication skills.
• Strong background in object oriented programming with special focus on Java.
• Prior experience Agile methodologies is a plus.
• Prior experience with Spring Boot or the Spring framework is a plus.
• Experience with testing frameworks like JUnit is a plus.

We do not/will not sponsor candidates for work authorization, including H-1B petitions for this role.

We have guided the world’s most successful individuals, families and institutions since 1889. Since our roots as a trust bank, we’ve grown to a global presence with more than 22,000 employees in more than 20 countries across five core business units.