Quantitative Developer

HarbourVest Partners • Boston, MA

11d • $160,000 - $165,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Quantitative Developer will join the Quantitative Investment Science team to build user-facing applications and the underlying foundations of HarbourVest’s cloud-based investment analytics platform, including APIs, backend services, data integrations, and cloud infrastructure. The role includes designing intuitive, data-rich workflows and reusable UI components, as well as developing the services and pipelines that support them.

The engineer will translate business requirements into reliable, performant, and maintainable solutions, select appropriate tools and technologies, and use prototypes to evaluate new approaches. The position suits someone who is curious about systems end to end, thoughtful in problem solving, committed to continuous learning, and effective in an evolving, fast-paced, collaborative environment. The position uses a hybrid work arrangement, with 18 remote workdays per quarter available at the employee’s discretion subject to manager approval.

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 Python and/or TypeScript experience.
• 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.
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, systematic thinking, and curiosity about how systems work end to end.
• A commitment to turning requirements into well-defined, durable systems.

Nice To Haves

• 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.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

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