Senior Lead, Mobile & Full-Stack Engineering

Northern Trust Corp; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 115,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Trust Corp in Chicago, IL, seeks a Sr. Lead, SW Full Stack Engg to lead the design, development, and delivery of enterprise mobile applications for iOS and Android. You will collaborate with mobile, web, backend, cloud, and platform teams to deliver secure, scalable digital experiences.

The role requires 10+ years in software engineering with native mobile mastery and strong leadership. You will drive CI/CD, code quality, and production support in a regulated financial services setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in CS/engineering.
• 10+ years of software engineering with native mobile development for iOS and Android.
• Advanced iOS: Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, Xcode, iOS SDK, mobile dependency management.
• Advanced Android: Kotlin/Java, Android SDK, Android Studio, Jetpack, Gradle.
• Experience leading design, mentoring engineers, and enterprise release support.
• Strong mobile architecture, security, accessibility, performance, testing.
• Familiar with React web apps and aligning web/mobile integration.
• Backend familiarity: REST APIs, microservices, Java/Spring Boot, cloud, PCF/CF.
• CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, build automation, env config, monitoring, prod support.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, stakeholder mgmt, cross-functional leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, development, and maintenance of native iOS/Android apps.
• Provide technical direction, review designs, and promote best practices.
• Build secure, scalable mobile features using Swift/SwiftUI and Kotlin/Java.
• Partner with product, UX, QA, backend, web, cloud, and release teams end-to-end.
• Integrate with APIs, auth services, analytics, feature flags, push, third-party SDKs.
• Collaborate with React web teams to align UX and API usage across channels.
• Work with backend teams on APIs, microservices, cloud deployments, PCF/CF.
• Drive CI/CD, release readiness, troubleshooting, performance tuning, observability, security remediation, production support.

Skills

Swift

SwiftUI

Kotlin

Java

Xcode

iOS SDK

CI/CD

REST APIs

React

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology

Tools

Git

Jenkins

Cloud Foundry

Azure

Kubernetes

Job description

Northern Trust Corp in Chicago, IL, seeks a Sr. Lead, SW Full Stack Engg to lead the design, development, and delivery of enterprise mobile applications for iOS and Android. You will collaborate with mobile, web, backend, cloud, and platform teams to deliver secure, scalable digital experiences.

The role requires 10+ years in software engineering with native mobile mastery and strong leadership. You will drive CI/CD, code quality, and production support in a regulated financial services setting.