Associate - Java Full Stack Developer

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 Support Analyst to support Technically and Functionally suite of applications used by Private Equity (PE) controllers. This involves applications such as Investran which Fund Accounting application from FIS, Plutus (inhouse developed) used for Payments and other related applications used for reporting and supporting functions. The ideal candidate is a well-rounded hands-on engineer passionate about learning PE domain functionally and able to do automation using Python/VBA and has good understanding of SQL. This support engineer will work closely with key stakeholders in PE controllers’ team and will handle their support issues, identify the opportunities of improvements and hence also contribute to development of small enhancements and projects. A smart developer who is willing to learn the domain and is also willing to do support along with the development work or a smart production support person who already has a coding background in SQL/Python/VBA and is willing to go up the value chain by also adopting functional understanding are the right candidates for this position. 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Contribute to maintenance and enhancement of the PE applications by understanding the business, proactively avoiding the recurring issues, coming up with solutions/enhancements to improve the platform.

• 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 solutions with at a higher velocity.

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

• 4-5 years of software development experience or support experience in Investment Banking domain – should already have some functional skills/understanding of the business that they have supported or worked for.

• Hands-on coding expertise in Python, VBA and SQL

• 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.

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.