Full Stack AI Engineer, Investment Engineering

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.

• 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.

• 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., Git Hub, Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong software development experience building full-stack cloud-based applications using Python and a Type Script 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.

$100,000 – $115,000

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.

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.