Northern Trust is a Chicago-based bank with more than 20 international locations and 16,500 employees. From sovereign wealth funds to the wealthiest individuals and families, the world's most sophisticated clients rely on Northern Trust every day.

Northern Trust's leading technology solutions enable businesses to drive growth, improve client and employee experiences, and protect confidential data.

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 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.

Qualifications:

• 1-3 years of Java Development Experience
• 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.
• Understanding of Object-Oriented technology and standard Java development frameworks, including OOD and OOP skills.
• Working knowledge of Java, Java web applications, and modern Spring Frameworks (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud Services, Spring Security, etc.)
• Experience developing continuous delivery and continuous deployment pipelines for java applications with the use of Bamboo/Concourse/Jenkins/Gradle.
• Experience in Test Driven Development (TDD) and hands on experience in developing tests using one of the following: Junit, Mockito and other testing frameworks.
• Experience with source control management such as Git or GitHub.
• Experience in using IDEs like Eclipse 3.x, IntelliJ IDEA.
• Experience with modern web application frameworks (AngularJS, ReactJS etc.)
• Experience with messaging tools like RabbitMQ, Kafka, MQ and Solace.
• Experience with RDBMS and No SQL databases-specific design and development.

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.