Staff Engineer, Credit Technology

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 Associate 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, with expertise in 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.  Reporting relationships Reports to:  VP, Credit Engineering Lead, New York Supervises: No direct reports initially; may provide technical mentorship and project leadership to junior engineers. Primary functions & responsibilities Hands-On Software Engineering   Design, develop, test, deploy, and support software solutions supporting credit investment workflows.   Contribute across front-end, backend, integration, and data layers.   Build and maintain APIs, 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.   Technical Design & Solution Architecture   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.   Evaluate new technologies, frameworks, and development patterns.   Ensure solutions meet requirements for scalability, performance, resiliency, security, and maintainability.   Application Development & Technology Delivery   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,