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.
Primary Responsibilities
Responsible for full lifecycle of development tasks - analyze, design and code business-related solutions, as well as core architectural changes, using an Agile programming approach resulting in software delivered to tight deadlines.
Participate and contribute to design discussions and code reviews.
Understand changing priorities and be forward-thinking in context switching.
Build positive relationships with other team members, collaborate, and communicate effectively to reach successful outcomes
Utilize problem-solving skills to help your peers in the research and selection of tools, products, and frameworks (which is vital to support business initiatives)
Qualifications & Experience
Educational Background: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or another STEM field.
Professional Experience: 3-7+ years of proven hands-on, full-stack development expertise.
Technical Skills:
Frontend Development: Strong proficiency in Angular and JavaScript.
Backend Development: Solid experience with ASP.NET and .NET Core for service development.
Database Management: Strong SQL Server skills, with the ability to design, optimize, and manage databases effectively.
Cloud Services: Familiarity with Azure cloud services is preferred, enhancing deployment and scalability of applications.
Architecture: Experience with Event-Driven architectures and messaging systems, specifically Kafka.
Development Practices:
Comfortable working in an Agile software delivery environment.
Proficient with Git and experienced with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub, Docker, Jenkins), ensuring efficient version control and deployment processes.
SOLID Design Principles: A strong understanding of SOLID design principles, ensuring the development of software systems that are manageable, scalable, and extensible.
Twelve-Factor App Methodology: Knowledge of the Twelve-Factor App methodology for building software-as-a-service apps that are robust, scalable, and maintainable.
Microservices: Demonstrated ability to build and deploy microservices in a scalable high throughput workflow, showcasing an understanding of modern application architectures.
Code Quality: Passion for writing clean, maintainable code, with a continuous drive to improve engineering skills and practices in fast-paced and ambiguous environments.
Observability: Good to have experience with implementing observability in applications, including monitoring, logging, and tracing to ensure high availability and performance.
Python: Proficiency in Python is preferred, adding versatility to backend development and automation tasks.
Industry Experience: While not mandatory, experience in financial services is preferred, indicating a familiarity with industry-specific challenges and solutions.
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.