Distinguished Engineer

Distinguished Engineer

Harbour Vest is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to architect and guide our technical teams, to lead the design, delivery and long-term evolution of our private equity and private credit front office applications. This is a senior technical leadership role for someone who sets architectural direction and stays close to the code. You will guide how we build scalable financial technology systems and modern AI features.

These features support our investment staff's decisions and improve engineering standards across all teams you impact. A core part of this role is crafting and delivering distributed financial technology solutions. You will modernize them using Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and agentic systems. These solutions will be put into production using our proprietary private markets data.

This hybrid position spans both application development and artificial intelligence development, requiring equal depth in platform architecture and applied AI

• A technical leader who can provide architectural mentorship and influence teams without relying solely on formal authority
• A self-starter with a love for technology, software application delivery, AI/ML, and mathematical applications
• Experienced in taking generative AI solutions from prototype to reliable, production-grade systems
• Equipped with excellent interpersonal skills to work well across multiple teams
• Possessed strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills as well as with outstanding attention to detail
• Passionate about building tools to enable private and financial investment systems

• Be responsible for the technical architecture for our investment systems, translating investment department needs into scalable, maintainable solutions
• Lead features end to end design, code, run, and maintain pipelines, transformations, views, and test suites for applications and data validation
• Establish engineering standards and provide mentorship to team members on software, data, and AI engineering practices
• Build and deliver sophisticated AI technologies, LLM-powered applications, RAG pipelines, and autonomous and human-in-the-loop agents grounded in Harbour Vest's proprietary data
• Apply AI across the SDLC, using AI-assisted development, testing, and code review to accelerate delivery and quality
• Serve as a technical point of reference, reviewing designs and working with the firm's Architecture Review Board to champion responsible engineering and AI standards for investment technology solutions
• Partner with our Platform Engineering and Quantitative Investment Science teams to align technology strategies, optimize platform capabilities, and drive investment platforms business outcomes.

Leadership & Domain Expertise

• This is a hands-on, code-first role. You'll write production code regularly, and your architectural decisions will grow directly out of that hands-on experience.
• Distinguished Engineer-level experience architecting and leading implementation of large-scale systems for investment platforms and analytics engineering teams in investment management
• Set engineering standards and mentor team members on software, infra, security, data, and AI engineering practices
• Partner with Data, Dev Ops, Security, Infrastructure, and Application Development teams to integrate automated deployment and testing.
• Act as a technical point of reference by reviewing builds, resolving complex problems, and championing engineering and responsible-AI procedures
• Deep understanding of data as a strategic asset, treating data quality, structure, and governance as core to the role, not a downstream concern.
• Extensive experience with private equity datasets, a delivery-focused, entrepreneurial mindset, and a track record of shipping software projects optimally to production are critical

• Proficient in Python or Java and skilled in full-stack development using Type Script, Node with experience in CI/CD pipelines. Python is preferred
• Experienced in developing scalable FastAPI-based microservices maximising GraphQL and gRPC
• Strong experience in data modeling, engineering, ETL/ELT frameworks, data quality and analytics using Snowflake or equivalent cloud warehouses
• Experience with modern real-time and streaming data technologies (such as Apache Kafka, Azure Event Hubs or cloud-native event streaming platforms)
• Expertise in building Docker or Kubernetes (AKS or EKS) containerized applications
• Experience applying AI throughout the software development lifecycle for coding, validation, and code assessment with tools such as Git Hub Copilot, Codex, or Claude Code
• Experience building and deploying production systems on major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) would be advantageous

• Practical experience developing tool-integrated agentic systems using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and frameworks such as FastMCP
• Practical experience developing and launching LLM…