Staff Engineer, Credit Technology
Ares Management
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Job summary
Qualifications
- 5-8 years of software engineering in enterprise applications.
- Experience delivering front-end and back-end in financial services.
- Experience with cloud-native architectures, microservices, and data platforms.
- Ability to mentor developers and contribute to engineering excellence.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and support scalable credit technology solutions.
- Contribute across front-end, back-end, integration, and data layers.
- Build and maintain APIs, services, and user-facing applications for investment workflows.
- Lead code reviews, design discussions, and production support activities.
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Education
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Job description
Over the last 20 years, Ares’ success has been driven by our people and our culture. Today, our team is guided by our core values – Collaborative, Responsible, Entrepreneurial, Self-Aware, Trustworthy – and our purpose to be a catalyst for shared prosperity and a better future. Through our recruitment, career development and employee-focused programming, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive work environment where high-performance talent of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can build careers within this exciting and growing industry.
Ares is seeking an Assistant Vice President, Senior Full Stack Engineer to support the design, development, and delivery of technology solutions powering the firm’s global credit investment platform.
Reporting to the VP, Credit Engineering Lead, this role will serve as a senior individual contributor within the Credit Technology Engineering team, responsible for building scalable applications, APIs, data services, and platform capabilities across the credit investment lifecycle, including deal origination, underwriting, portfolio monitoring, risk management, and investment analytics.
This is a highly hands-on engineering role. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute directly to software development while partnering with the Credit Engineering Lead on technical design, implementation standards, platform modernization, and software delivery best practices.
The ideal candidate will bring strong experience building enterprise-grade applications within financial services environments, withexpertisein modern full-stack development, cloud-native architectures, microservices, data platforms, messaging systems, and software engineering best practices. Experience supporting credit investment, lending, portfolio management, or alternative asset management platforms is strongly preferred.
This individual will collaborate closely with Product Management, Credit Investment Professionals, Portfolio Management teams, Investment Operations, Data & AI teams, and broader Investment Technology stakeholders to deliver scalable, resilient, and high-performing technology solutions that support the firm’s growing credit business.
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and support software solutions supporting credit investment workflows.
- Contribute across front-end, backend, integration, and data layers.
- Build andmaintainAPIs, services, and user-facing applications supporting investment workflows.
- Participate actively in code reviews, design reviews, troubleshooting, and production support activities.
- Drive implementation of scalable and maintainable software solutions aligned with engineering standards.
- Partner with the VP, Credit Engineering Lead on architecture, system design, and technology decisions.
- Design application components supporting distributed and microservices-based architectures.
- Contribute to technical roadmaps and platform modernization initiatives.
- Evaluatenew technologies, frameworks, and development patterns.
- Ensure solutions meet requirements for scalability, performance, resiliency, security, and maintainability.
- Develop capabilities across credit deal management platforms, portfolio management solutions, credit analytics platforms, workflow automation solutions, investment data services and APIs, and reporting and analytics platforms.
- Support technology solutions for deal sourcing and pipeline management, underwriting workflows, investment committee processes, portfolio monitoring, risk analytics, investment reporting, and investment data management.
- Work with the Credit EngineeringLeadto break down technical deliverables, estimate work, and execute delivery plans.
- Build and deploy applicationsutilizingcloud-native technologies.
- Implement containerizedsolutionsleveragingKubernetes and cloud platform services.
- Develop platform observability, logging, monitoring, and operational support capabilities.
- Support modernization initiatives focused on automation, scalability, resiliency, and operational efficiency.
- Design and develop APIs and integration services.
- Build solutionsutilizingmessaging, event streaming, and asynchronous processing patterns.
- Support integration across investment platforms, reporting platforms, operational systems, and enterprise data environments.
- Partner with Data & AI teams to support high-quality data flows, analytics, and reporting capabilities.
- Participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle.
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, release management processes, and deployment standards.
- Maintainhigh standardsfor code quality, testing, documentation, and operational support.
- Support implementation of DevOps practices, engineering controls, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Mentor Associate and Analyst software engineers through code reviews, design guidance, and technical coaching.
- Serve as a senior technical contributor across development initiatives.
- Collaborate closely with Product Management, Investment Technology, and business stakeholders.
- Promote engineering excellence, ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement across the team.
- BSc in Computer Science or related field is required. Advanced degree preferred.
- 5-8 years of software engineering experience delivering enterprise applications.
- Experience contributing to large-scale software delivery initiatives.
- Experience developing software solutions within complex business environments.
- Experienceoperatingwithin Agile software development organizations.
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional technical and business teams.
- Experience supporting production applications andparticipatingin operational support activities.
- Financial services experiencestronglypreferred.
- Experience supporting investment management, capital markets, lending, credit, or alternative asset management platforms preferred.
- Experience mentoring developers or providing technical leadership across development initiatives.
- Advancedproficiencyin Java and modern backend development frameworks.
- Strongproficiencyin React and TypeScript.
- Strong experience with relational and non-relational databases.
- Strong understanding of APIs, integration patterns, and service-oriented architectures.
- Strong understanding of microservices and distributed systems.
- Experience implementing event-driven architectures.
- Experience withmessaging and streaming technologies.
- Experience with cloud-native application development.
- ExperienceutilizingKubernetes and containerized platforms.
- Strong understanding of software design patterns and engineering best practices.
- Experience with SDLC, CI/CD, automated testing, and DevOps tooling.
- Strong debugging, performance tuning, and troubleshooting capabilities.
- Strong focus on maintainability, quality, documentation, and operational excellence.
- Strong technical communication skills.
- Ability to mentor junior engineers through code reviews, design feedback, and technical guidance.
- Ability to influence technical decisions through subject matterexpertise.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering, product, and business teams.
- Strong ownershipmentality, accountability, and delivery focus.
- Familiarity with DealCloud, or other pipeline management systems, credit systems such as Allvue. WSO is a big plus.
Global Head of Investment Technology
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