Associate, Quantitative Developer

HarbourVest Partners, LLC

$160K — $165K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of software development experience building data-rich platforms or products
  • 3+ years of experience with SQL using complex queries against large datasets
  • 3+ years of Python and/or TypeScript experience
  • Strong analytical skills and curiosity about system functionality
  • Excellent collaboration skills for requirement gathering and solution delivery
  • Attention to detail and a systematic approach to problem-solving
  • Familiarity with data modeling and data management concepts.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain user-facing applications and supporting backend services and APIs
  • Develop reusable UI components for shared platform capabilities
  • Support safe gradual rollouts of changes using feature flags
  • Build and enhance data pipelines and integrations across the platform
  • Work collaboratively with product and design to translate problems into technical designs
  • Manage delivery expectations and ensure project completion
  • Contribute to engineering culture through code reviews and documentation
  • Improve developer tooling and observability for reliable applications.

Benefits

  • 18 remote workdays per quarter with manager approval
  • Comprehensive total rewards package including retirement and health insurance
  • Paid time off and wellness programs
  • Opportunities for individual and firm performance-based bonuses
  • Hybrid work arrangement allowing flexibility between in-office and remote work.
Full Job Description
Job Description Summary

This 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.

The Associate, 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.

This 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.

The ideal candidate is someone who has:
  • 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 - you'll work closely with product and development to shape requirements and deliver solutions
  • Attention to detail and systematic thinking
  • A love for turning 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
  • Experience with messaging technologies such as Kafka, Azure Event Grid, or equivalent is a plus
  • Interest in finance and building efficient products that users love


What you will do:
  • 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 a strong engineering culture through code review, knowledge sharing, and documentation that lets teams build with confidence
  • Improve developer tooling, CI/CD, automated testing, and observability (logging, metrics, and telemetry) that keep applications and services reliable


Education Preferred
  • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) or equivalent experience
  • Bachelor of Science (B.S.) or equivalent experience


Experience
  • 3+ years of professional software development experience building data-rich platforms or products
  • 3+ years of SQL using complex queries against large datasets
  • 3+ years of Python and/or TypeScript experience


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Base Salary Range

$160,000.00 - $165,000.00

This USD base salary range represents only one component of total compensation for this role and is provided in accordance with local requirements. This role is eligible for a discretionary annual bonus, which is determined based on individual and overall firm performance. In addition to salary and bonus, total compensation may include eligibility for long-term reward programs and a comprehensive total rewards package that may include retirement, health, insurance, paid time off, and wellness programs. Our total rewards offerings are influenced by several business factors, and eligibility for certain components will vary by position and geography. Please note the posted ranges do not apply outside the U.S. and should not be converted to other currencies as a proxy for compensation in other countries.

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