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As our global firm grows, we continue to add individuals who seek a collaborative, open-door culture that values diversity and innovative thinking.\nIn our collegial environment that’s marked by low turnover and high energy, you’ll be inspired to grow and thrive. Here, you will be encouraged to build on your strengths and acquire new skills and experiences.\nWe are committed to fostering an environment of inclusion that promotes mutual respect among all employees. Understanding and valuing these differences optimizes the potential of both the individual and the firm.\nHarbourVest is an equal opportunity employer.\nThis position will be a hybrid work arrangement. You will receive 18 remote workdays per quarter to use at your discretion, subject to manager approval. For example, you may choose to work in the office 4 days per week and take one remote day weekly (typically 13 weeks per quarter), leaving 5 additional remote days to be used as needed.\nThe Quantitative Developer will be a member of the Quantitative Investment Science team, building both the user-facing applications of our cloud-based investment analytics platform and the foundations beneath them - APIs, backend services, data integrations, and cloud infrastructure. The role spans designing intuitive, data-rich workflows and reusable UI components as well as the services and pipelines that power them.\nThis engineer will translate business requirements into reliable, performant, and maintainable solutions, select the appropriate tools and technologies, and use prototypes to evaluate new approaches. They flourish in an evolving, fast-paced environment and bring a work style marked by technical curiosity, thoughtful problem solving, continuous learning, and collaboration.\nThe ideal candidate is someone who has:\nStrong analytical skills and curiosity about how systems work end to end\nExperience building modern web applications and reusable UI components using React and TypeScript\nStrong SQL skills, including complex queries and data access patterns\nPython experience building enterprise-level, production-quality software\nExcellent collaboration skills - you'll work closely with product and development to shape requirements and deliver solutions\nAttention to detail and systematic thinking\nA love for turning requirements into well-defined, durable systems\nFamiliarity with data modeling, data management, and data warehouse concepts\nExperience developing applications on Azure or comparable cloud environments using Git, CI/CD, and other DevOps practices\nExperience with messaging technologies such as Kafka, Azure Event Grid, or equivalent is a plus\nInterest in finance and building efficient products that users love\nWhat you will do:\nDesign, build, and maintain user-facing applications and the backend services and APIs that support them\nDevelop reusable UI components and shared platform capabilities used across applications\nSupport gradual rollouts and feature flags to ship changes safely as the platform evolves\nBuild and improve data pipelines and integrations across the platform, and contribute to logical and physical data models\nWork directly with product and design to understand problems, shape requirements, and turn them into clear technical designs\nPartner with product to review, triage, and resolve issues and defects\nManage delivery expectations and drive projects through completion\nContribute to a strong engineering culture through code review, knowledge sharing, and documentation that lets teams build with confidence\nImprove developer tooling, CI/CD, automated testing, and observability (logging, metrics, and telemetry) that keep applications and services reliable\nEducation Preferred\nBachelor of Arts (B.A.) or equivalent experience\nBachelor of Science (B.S.) or equivalent experience\nExperience\n3+ years of professional software development experience building data-rich platforms or products\n3+ years of SQL using complex queries against large datasets\n3+ years of Python and/or TypeScript experience\n#LI-Hybrid\nBase Salary Range\n$160,000.00 - $165,000.00\nThis USD base salary range represents only one component of total compensation for this role and is provided in accordance with local requirements. 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