Quantitative Developer

HarbourVest Partners • Boston, MA

10d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Quantitative Developer will join HarbourVest’s Quantitative Investment Science team and build both user-facing applications for its cloud-based investment analytics platform and the underlying APIs, backend services, data integrations, and cloud infrastructure. The role combines designing intuitive, data-rich workflows and reusable UI components with developing the services and pipelines that support them. The engineer will translate business requirements into reliable, performant, maintainable solutions, choose appropriate tools and technologies, and use prototypes to evaluate new approaches. The position suits someone who is curious, thoughtful, collaborative, and comfortable working in an evolving, fast-paced environment.

This position follows a hybrid work arrangement. Employees receive 18 remote workdays per quarter to use at their discretion, subject to manager approval.

HarbourVest describes its culture as collaborative, open-door, diverse, and supportive of inclusion, mutual respect, learning, and professional growth. The firm is an equal opportunity employer.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of professional software development experience building data-rich platforms or products.
• At least 3 years of SQL experience using complex queries against large datasets.
• At least 3 years of experience with Python and/or TypeScript.
• Strong analytical skills and curiosity about how systems work end to end.
• Experience building modern web applications and reusable UI components using React and TypeScript.
• Strong SQL skills, including complex queries and data access patterns.
• Python experience building enterprise-level, production-quality software.
• Excellent collaboration skills, including working closely with product and development teams to shape requirements and deliver solutions.
• Attention to detail and systematic thinking.
• Ability to turn requirements into well-defined, durable systems.
• Familiarity with data modeling, data management, and data warehouse concepts.
• Experience developing applications on Azure or comparable cloud environments using Git, CI/CD, and other DevOps practices.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with messaging technologies such as Kafka, Azure Event Grid, or equivalent.
• Interest in finance and building efficient products that users love.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain user-facing applications and the backend services and APIs that support them.
• Develop reusable UI components and shared platform capabilities used across applications.
• Support gradual rollouts and feature flags to ship changes safely as the platform evolves.
• Build and improve data pipelines and integrations across the platform, and contribute to logical and physical data models.
• Work directly with product and design to understand problems, shape requirements, and turn them into clear technical designs.
• Partner with product to review, triage, and resolve issues and defects.
• Manage delivery expectations and drive projects through completion.
• Contribute to engineering culture through code review, knowledge sharing, and documentation.
• Improve developer tooling, CI/CD, automated testing, and observability, including logging, metrics, and telemetry.

Benefits

• Discretionary annual bonus based on individual and overall firm performance.
• Potential participation in long-term reward programs, typically for more senior-level roles.
• Retirement contributions.
• Health insurance.
• Income protection.
• Paid time off and leave benefits.
• Well-being programs.
• Hybrid arrangement with 18 remote workdays per quarter, subject to manager approval.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level