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Northern Trust

Sr Lead Software Engineer, AI Security Platform

  • Office
  • 6+ years

Salary

$114,500 - 194,700/ year

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Description

The company is a global provider of wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking services, publicly traded on Nasdaq, founded in 1889, with over 135 years of financial experience and more than 24,000 partners.

The team is hiring a senior lead engineer to help build and grow an AI-powered code security scanner. The platform uses frontier AI models and security automation to find, confirm and report software vulnerabilities across enterprise codebases.

The work covers continued development, architecture changes and long-term improvement of the platform. You would need to be comfortable building user-facing applications, writing automation, connecting AI services and securing cloud-native systems.

Responsibilities

  • Act as a lead technical developer for the AI code scanner platform.
  • Drive modernization, enhancements and scalability work.
  • Mentor junior team members.
  • Improve the user experience, reporting dashboards, workflow management and admin tools.
  • Build secure authentication and authorization patterns.
  • Maintain and extend the orchestration and scanning services.
  • Expand and manage integrations with LLM-based security analysis.
  • Improve automated vulnerability analysis, reporting and verification workflows.

Requirements

  • At least 12 years of professional software engineering experience.
  • At least 5 years in a lead, principal or senior engineering role.
  • Experience supporting enterprise-scale applications in regulated environments.
  • Expert-level React development and modern single-page application architecture.
  • Experience with REST APIs and authentication integrations.
  • Expert-level Python development.
  • Experience with API design and integration.
  • Experience with automation and orchestration frameworks.
  • Experience with test automation and quality engineering.
  • Experience integrating large language models.
  • Experience with agent-based workflows and automation frameworks.
  • Experience with application security and vulnerability management.

Conditions

Base pay range is $114,500 to $194,700 USD. This is a good faith estimate of base pay.

You must be authorized to work in the U.S. without employment-based visa sponsorship, now or in the future.

The company will not sponsor U.S. work visas for this role, including H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa.

The company offers a flexible, collaborative work culture with a long record of financial strength and stability. Senior leaders are accessible, and internal moves are encouraged.

The company is committed to an inclusive workplace.

Benefits

  • Retirement benefits, including a 401k and a pension.
  • Health and welfare benefits: medical, dental, vision, spending accounts and disability coverage.
  • Paid time off, parental leave and caregiver leave.
  • Life and accident insurance, plus voluntary and well-being benefits.
  • A discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.
  • Opportunities to give time and talent to community causes through the company.

Where you’d work

From the office

No visa sponsorship

About the company

Northern Trust

  • Industry: FinTech

Offices in Chicago, United States, United States

Also hiring in London, United Kingdom, Ireland and New York, United States

5 of their 64 open roles are remote

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Details14 facts · Role, Location, Compensation, Employment, Company
Tech stack
  • Python
  • LLMs
Seniority
Lead
Type
Full-time
Equity
Equity offered
Industry
FinTech
Specialty
Fullstack
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Role

Category
Development
Specialty
Fullstack
Seniority
Lead
Experience
35+ years
Tech stack
  • Python
  • LLMs

Location

Work model
Office
Region
United States
Offices
  • Chicago, United States
  • United States
Visa sponsorship
Not sponsored

Compensation

Salary
$114,500 - 194,700 / year
Pay period
Annual
Equity
Equity offered

Employment

Type
Full-time

Company

Industry
FinTech

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