Senior Portfolio Management Engineering Lead - Investment Technology

Position Overview

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.

The Investment Technology team is responsible for developing Portfolio Management and Trading capabilities that support Apollo’s complex and unique trading strategies. The team is closely embedded with portfolio managers and traders and partner cross-functionally to enable successful design and execution of critical infrastructure.

The Investment Technology team is hiring a Senior Engineering Lead for its New York trading technology team, to lead the build out of the next generation of credit trading strategies. This position will play a crucial role in guiding and coordinating the team’s efforts to deliver high-quality software solutions to the trading desk and will be responsible for managing a team of developers and engineers.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of full-stack developers, providing guidance, support, and mentorship to ensure the successful delivery of software to the desk

• Usher software build through requirements gathering, design, hands-on development, testing, and production deployment

• Strong hands-on software experience in developing and a proven track record of delivering full-stack cloud based applications

• Demonstrated ability to build and deploy microservices in a scalable high throughput workflow

• Experience with messaging systems across application stack (e.g., Kafka)

• Experience with both server-side development (e.g.: Python, Node.js) and JavaScript/TypeScript front-end development (e.g.: Angular, React, Vue)

• Comfortable working in an agile software delivery environment with Git and with exposure to CI / CD tools(e.g., Docker, Jenkins, Gitlab)

• Passion for clean, maintainable code and always looking to improve engineering skills in fast-paced, ambiguous environments

• Lead by example, fostering a collaborative and inclusive team environment, promoting knowledge sharing and encouraging professional growth and development

Qualifications & Experience

• 15+ years of experience, with at least 7+ years working in a trading environment

• Individual must demonstrate strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to effectively

• collaborate with team members and stakeholders

• Track record of building and deploying trading software in a production environment

• Experience in trading technologies across asset classes, preferably fixed income

• Role requires individual to be nimble and flexible to balance multiple tasks simultaneously

• Individual must have strong drive, initiative, and demonstrate entrepreneurial skillsets

• Passion for learning and staying current with emerging technologies and best practices

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.

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