Position Overview
ABOUT APOLLO
Apollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager. In our asset management business, we seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade to private equity with a focus on three investing strategies: yield, hybrid, and equity. For more than three decades, our investing expertise across our fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of our clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth. Through Athene, our retirement services business, we specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions. Our patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees, and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes.
OUR PURPOSE AND CORE VALUES
Our Clients Rely On Our Investment Acumen To Help Secure Their Future. We Must Never Lose Our Focus And Determination To Be The Best Investors And Most Trusted Partners On Their Behalf. We Strive To Be
The leading provider of retirement income solutions to institutions, companies, and individuals.
The leading provider of capital solutions to companies. Our breadth and scale enable us to deliver capital for even the largest projects and our small firm mindset ensures we will be a thoughtful and dedicated partner to these organizations. We are committed to helping them build stronger businesses.
A leading contributor to addressing some of the biggest issues facing the world today such as energy transition, accelerating the adoption of new technologies, and social impact where innovative approaches to investing can make a positive difference.
We are building a unique firm of extraordinary colleagues who:
Outperform expectations.
Challenge Convention
Champion Opportunity
Lead responsibly.
Drive collaboration
As One Apollo team, we believe that doing great work and having fun go hand in hand, and we are proud of what we can achieve together.
Our Benefits
Apollo relies on its people to keep it a leader in alternative investment management, and the firm's benefit programs are crafted to offer meaningful coverage for both you and your family. Please reach out to your Human Capital Business Partner for more detailed information on specific benefits.
Position Overview
At Apollo, we are a global team of alternative investment managers passionate about delivering uncommon value to our investors and shareholders. With over 30 years of proven expertise across Private Equity, Credit, and Real Assets in various regions and industries, we are known for our integrated businesses, our strong investment performance, our value-oriented philosophy, and our people.
We seek a Senior Engineer/Full Stack Developer to innovate, manage, direct, architect, design, and implement solutions focused on our trade operations and controller functions across Private Equity, Credit, and Real Assets. The ideal candidate is a well-rounded hands-on engineer passionate about delivering quality software on the Java stack. Our Senior Engineer will work closely with key stakeholders in our Middle Office and Controllers teams and in the Credit and Opportunistic Technology teams to successfully deliver business requirements, projects, and programs. The candidate will have proven skills in independently managing the full software development lifecycle, working with end-users, business analysts, and project managers in defining and refining the problem statement, and delivering quality solutions on time. They will have the aptitude to quickly learn and embrace emerging technologies and proven methodologies to innovate and improve the correctness, quality, and timeliness of solutions delivered by the team.
Primary Responsibilities
- Design elegant solutions for systems that result in simple, extensible, maintainable, high-quality.
- Provide hands-on technical expertise in architecture, design, development, code reviews, quality assurance, observability, and product support.
- Use technical knowledge of product design, patterns, and code to identify risks and prevent software defects.
- Mentor and nurture other team members on doing the above listed at quality. Foster a culture of collaboration, disciplined software engineering practices, and a mindset to leave things better than you found them.
- Optimize team processes to improve productivity and responsiveness to feedback and changing priorities.
- Build strong relationships with key stakeholders, collaborate, and communicate effectively to reach successful outcomes. Passionate about delivering high-impact and breakthrough value to stakeholders.
- Desire to learn the domain and deliver enterprise solutions with at a higher velocity.
- Manage deliverables from early stages of requirement gathering through development, testing, UAT, deployment and post-production Lead in the planning, execution, and delivery of the team's commitments.
Qualifications & Experience
Qualifications & Experience:
- Master's or bachelor's degree in Computer Science or another STEM field
- Experience with software development in the Alternative Asset Management or Investment Banking domain
- 8+ years of software development experience in at least one of the following OO languages: Java, C++, or C#
- 5+ years of Web 2.0 UI/UX development experience in at least one of the following frameworks using JavaScript/TypeScript: ExtJS, ReactJS, AngularJS, or Vue.
- Hands-on development expertise in Java, Spring Boot, REST, Messaging, JPA, and SQL for the last 4+ years
- Hands-on development expertise in building applications using RESTful and Microservices architecture
- Expertise in developing applications using TDD/BDD/ATDD with hands-on experience with at least one of Junit, Spring Test, TestNG, or Cucumber
- A strong understanding of SOLID principles, Design Patterns, Enterprise Integration Patterns
- A strong understanding of relational databases, SQL, ER modeling, and ORM technologies
- A strong understanding of BPM and its application
- Hands-on experience with various CI/CD practices and tools such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, TeamCity, etcetera
- Exceptional problem-solving & debugging skills. Awareness of emerging application development methodologies, design patterns, and technologies.
- Ability to quickly learn new and emerging technologies and adopt solutions from within the company or the open-source community.
Experience with the below will be a plus
- Buy-side operational and fund accounting processes
- Business processes and workflows using modern BPM/Low Code/No Code platforms (JBPM, Bonitasoft, Appian, Logic Apps, Unqork, etcetera)
- OpenAPI, GraphQL, gRPC, ESB, SOAP, WCF, Kafka, and Node
- Serverless architecture
- Microsoft Azure
- Designing and implementing microservices on AKS
- Azure DevOps
- Sencha platform
- NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cosmos DB, Neo4J)
- Python software development
- Functional programming paradigm
Apollo provides equal employment opportunities regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, color, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, veteran status, gender/sex or sexual orientation, or any other criterion or circumstance protected by applicable law, ordinance, or regulation. The above criteria are intended to be used as a guide only candidates who do not meet all the above criteria may still be considered if they are deemed to have relevant experience/ equivalent levels of skill or knowledge to fulfil the requirements of the role. Any job offer will be conditional upon and subject to satisfactory reference and background screening checks, all necessary corporate and regulatory approvals or certifications as required from time to time and entering into definitive contractual documentation satisfactory to Apollo.