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Associate Director, Backend Developer (Daphne)

Apollo India Services LLP
Full-time
On-site
Mumbai Nesco IT Park Tower India
Finance Jobs

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:

Lead the technical ownership of the Product Master platform, a critical source of truth for product data across the business. Design, build, and maintain scalable backend systems and APIs to support product data ingestion, transformation, and delivery. Collaborate closely with backend, data, and product teams to ensure the platform meets evolving business needs. Apply strong engineering practices to support reliability, performance, and maintainability at scale. Contribute to architectural decisions and influence the direction of our platform and services.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Design and implement backend services for managing and exposing product data.
  • Build and extend APIs (REST, GraphQL) to support both internal consumers and external integrations.
  • Own data workflows end-to-end—from ingestion to transformation to delivery.
  • Partner with data engineering to align with dbt models and Snowflake infrastructure.
  • Ensure data integrity and consistency across multiple data sources and touchpoints.
  • Lead troubleshooting and performance tuning efforts across distributed systems.
  • Drive adoption of best practices in API design, microservices, and backend development.
  • Participate in sprint planning, technical discussions, and code reviews with cross-functional teams.
  • Stay current with emerging technologies and evaluate them for potential adoption.

Qualifications & Experience

  • 7+ years of experience in backend development, ideally in data-centric or financial environments.
  • Proficiency in Python and Java (must-have).
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture.
  • Experience designing and implementing RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs.
  • Quick learner with the ability to adapt to new tools and technologies.
  • Familiarity with Snowflake and dbt (or similar tools).
  • Proven track record of integrating data from various external and internal sources.
  • Strong communication skills and a collaborative, team-first mindset.
  • Experience working in Private Equity or financial services.
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure preferred).
  • Exposure to data governance, observability, and monitoring tools.
  • Knowledge of event-driven architecture and message queues (e.g., Kafka, SQS).
  • Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.