at Northern Trust Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
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 world's 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 22,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.
Northern Trust is a Chicago-based bank with more than 20 international locations and ~23k employees. From sovereign wealth funds to the wealthiest individuals and families, the world's most sophisticated clients rely on Northern Trust every day.
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.
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.
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.
- 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.
Qualifications:
- 4 -7 years of professional experience in software development.
- Strong background in object-oriented programming with special focus on Java.
- Working knowledge of Java web applications, and modern Spring Frameworks (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud Services, Spring Security, etc.)
- Experience in Test Driven Development (TDD) and hand on experience in developing tests using one of the following: Junit, Mockito, Cucumber, Selenium, and other testing frameworks.
- Experience developing continuous delivery and continuous deployment pipelines for java applications with the use of Bamboo/Concourse/Jenkins/Gradle
- Experience with containerization and container orchestration technologies (e.g. Kubernetes)
- Experience with RDBMS and No SQL databases-specific design and development
- Experience with modern web application...
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