Sr. Lead, SW Full Stack Eng

Northern Trust • Chicago, IL

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Northern Trust is seeking a Sr. Lead, SW Full Stack Engg to lead the design, development, and delivery of enterprise mobile applications across iOS and Android. This role requires strong hands-on mobile engineering expertise, technical leadership, and the ability to collaborate across mobile, web, backend, cloud, and platform teams to deliver secure, scalable, and high-quality digital experiences.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including strong hands-on native mobile development for iOS and Android.
• Advanced experience with iOS technologies such as Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, Xcode, iOS SDK, and mobile dependency management.
• Advanced experience with Android technologies such as Kotlin or Java, Android SDK, Android Studio, Jetpack, and Gradle.
• Experience leading technical design, mentoring engineers, driving code quality, and supporting enterprise release processes.
• Strong understanding of mobile architecture patterns, secure development practices, accessibility, performance, and automated testing.
• Working knowledge of React-based web applications and how web features, routing, state management, and API integrations align with mobile experiences.
• Familiarity with backend services, REST APIs, microservices, Java/Spring Boot services, cloud deployments, and PCF/Cloud Foundry environments.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, build automation, environment configuration, monitoring, and production support.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, stakeholder management, and cross-functional leadership skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in regulated, financial services, or high-security enterprise environments.
• Knowledge of Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, observability tools, mobile SDK integrations, and release governance.
• Experience leading platform modernization, mobile architecture improvements, security remediation, or cloud migration initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, development, and maintenance of native mobile applications for iOS and Android.
• Provide technical direction to developers, review designs and code, and promote engineering best practices.
• Build secure, scalable, and high-performing mobile features using Swift/SwiftUI and Kotlin/Java.
• Partner with product, UX, QA, backend, web, cloud, and release teams to deliver end-to-end mobile capabilities.
• Integrate mobile applications with APIs, authentication services, analytics, feature flags, push notifications, and third-party SDKs.
• Collaborate with React web application teams to align user experience, feature behavior, and API usage across channels.
• Work with backend teams to understand APIs, microservices, cloud deployments, and PCF/Cloud Foundry dependencies.
• Drive CI/CD, release readiness, troubleshooting, performance tuning, observability, security remediation, and production support.

Benefits

• 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
• other voluntary and well-being benefits
• discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior