Lead Software Engineer (Full Stack)

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust a Fortune 500 company is a globally recognized award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the worlds most successful individuals families and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service expertise and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22000 partners we serve the worlds most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

About Us

The Private Passport Platform is a core clientfacing digital platform that supports wealth management clients and partners across account access money movement document exchange investments and secure collaboration. It is a cornerstone of our broader digital strategy and is actively evolving toward a modern cloudbased architecture with improved resiliency scalability and user experience.

Our team works closely with Product Design Architecture Security and Data partners to deliver features that are secure reliable and intuitivewhile supporting both web and mobile experiences at scale.

Role Summary

We are looking for aLead Software Engineer (FullStack)to provide handson technical leadership for the Private Passport Platform.

In this role you will:

• Lead the design and delivery of complex fullstack features
• Set engineering standards and guide technical decisions
• Act as a goto technical leader for engineers product partners and architects
• Balance handson development with technical oversight and mentorship

This is abuilderleader role- you will write code review code influence architecture and help the team deliver reliably at scale.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Lead theendtoend design and implementationof fullstack solutions across web API and backend services
• Partner with architecture and platform teams to align solutions withcloud and security standardsfor Private Passport
• Make sound technical decisions that balancespeed quality security and longterm maintainability
• Identify and addresstechnical debt performance risks and reliability gaps

HandsOn Engineering

• Build and maintainhighquality productionready codeacross frontend and backend layers
• Lead and participate incode reviews setting a high bar for quality and clarity
• Supportmobile and web experiences ensuring consistency and reliability across channels

Team Enablement & Mentorship

• Mentor engineers through pairing design reviews and constructive feedback
• Help engineers grow their technical depth and systemlevel thinking
• Promote best practices in testing observability and operational readiness

CrossFunctional Collaboration

• Work closely withProduct and Designto translate requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Partner withSecurity Data and Platform teamsto ensure compliance resilience and performance
• Contribute to PI planning technical forums and leadership discussions for the Private Passport Platform

What you will do

• Design develop and maintain server-side logic using Java/Spring Boot
• Build and optimize RESTful APIs and microservices for seamless integration with front-end applications.
• Work with relational databases and NoSQL databases ensuring data integrity and performance.
• Implement secure authentication and authorization mechanisms (e.g. OAuth).
• Develop responsive and interactive user interfaces using and related libraries (e.g. Redux React Router).
• Ensure cross-browser compatibility and optimize front-end performance for a seamless user experience.
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers to translate wireframes and designs into functional components.
• Integrate front-end and back-end components to create cohesive end-to-end solutions.
• Troubleshoot and debug issues across the stack to ensure application reliability and performance.
• Write clean maintainable and well-documented code following best practices and coding standards.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies (e.g. sprint planning daily stand-ups retrospectives).
• Work closely with product managers designers and other developers to deliver features on time and within scope.
• Contribute to code reviews ensuring high-quality code and knowledge sharing within the team.
• Optimize applications for scalability performance and security.
• Participate in the evaluation and adoption of new tools frameworks and methodologies.

Required Qualifications

• A bachelors degree in computer science software engineering or a related discipline. Experience is the most relevant factor.
• Experience buildingsecure clientfacing applications
• Solid understanding ofdistributed systems APIs and cloudbased architectures
• 5 years of experience with multiple programming languages such as Java/Spring Boot JavaScript React Ecosystem Python SQL/NoSQL as well as unit testing frameworks.
• 5 years of experience with cloud-native engineering using PaaS and microservices on cloud platforms such as AKS on Azure.
• Prior experience using methodologies & tools such as Scrum SAFe DevSecOps SRE ADO GitHub GitHub Actions SonarQube Checkmarks etc. to deliver high-quality products rapidly.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience withcloudnative architecturesand modernization efforts
• Background infinancial services or regulated environments
• Experience supportingmobile web platformsused by external clients
• Familiarity with modern engineering practices such as CI/CD automated testing and observability

Why Join This Team

• Work on ahighimpact platformthat directly supports clients and advisors
• Influence the technical direction of astrategic evolving digital platform
• Collaborate with experienced product design and architecture leaders

Opportunity to shape how modern engineering practices are applied at scale

Salary Range:

Salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits (401k and pension) health and welfare benefits (medical dental vision spending accounts and disability) paid time off parental and caregiver leave life & accident insurance and other voluntary and well-being benefits. Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged senior leaders are accessible and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve!Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

Wed love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the worlds most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us andapply today.#MadeForGreater

Reasonable accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process please email our HR Service Center at .

We hope youre excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.