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.
Primary Responsibilities
Member of the Investment Engineering Trading Services team, responsible for the 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 on schedule.
Frame problems by engaging with our business colleagues, engineering, data, operations, and product management.
Design agent workflows: decompose messy problems into well-scoped tasks. Write crisp spec/prompts, acceptance criteria and guardrails.
Focus on proven, tested solutions of highly sensitive trading applications.
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 new tools, products, and frameworks
Qualifications & Experience
Strong computer science fundamentals established via a bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or closely related field
Alternatively, the candidate may have bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering combined with 2-5 years of relevant experience at a financial firm in an engineering role.
Proficient in leveraging AI-powered development tools (e.g., Cursor, LLMs such as Claude, Sonnet, OpenAI) to accelerate software delivery through automated code generation, testing, and validation against specifications, ensuring high-quality, maintainable solutions.
Experience building tools that programmatically call LLM APIs.
Comfortable working in an agile software delivery environment, with Git and with exposure to CI / CD tools (e.g., GitHub, Docker, Kubernetes)
Strong software development experience building full-stack cloud-based applications using Python and a TypeScript UI framework (Vue.js preferred)
Familiar with automated testing techniques: Test Driven Development, Mocking, Dependency Injection
Demonstrated ability to build and deploy microservices in a scalable high throughput workflow.
Passion for clean, maintainable code and always looking to improve engineering skills in fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous environments.
Demonstrated interest in finance and capital markets through studies, experience, or personal projects.
Demonstrated ability to decompose ambiguous problems into clear, agent-executable tasks, write crisp specs, constraints, and acceptance criteria
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.
Pay Range
$100,000 – $115,000Apollo Global Management, Inc. (together with its subsidiaries and affiliates) is committed to championing opportunity.
The firm and its affiliates comply with applicable discrimination and equal opportunities legislation in all of its jurisdictions and do not discriminate in employment or recruitment based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, veteran status, disability, age, citizenship, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
The contents of the qualifications and experience section of this job description are a guideline only. If an applicant can otherwise demonstrate their suitability for the role they will be considered.
The base salary range for this position is listed above. This position is also eligible for a discretionary annual bonus based on personal, team, and Firm performance. Compensation ranges are based on several factors including job function, level, and geographic location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed here.