Founding Data Products Engineer

About the company

Vinyl Equity is a financial technology infrastructure company and SEC-registered transfer agent that provides modern systems for capital markets and corporate transactions.

About this role

ABOUT VINYL EQUITY   We're building the next generation of capital-markets infrastructure, starting with a modern, digital-native transfer agent designed for today's public companies. Our platform replaces slow, manual processes with secure, automated workflows — delivering the first API-driven, real-time infrastructure for public companies.   Backed by Index Ventures, Spark Capital, and Infinity Ventures, our team includes veterans from NYSE, Equiniti, Computershare, and AngelList. Engineering is headquartered in Mangaluru.   ABOUT THE ROLE   You'll own the Data Products function end-to-end across four surfaces: Reporting & Analytics, the Immutable Ledger, Shareholder Intelligence, and Data Governance for Compliance. This is a builder role, not a specifier role. You will work with customers on requirements, architect solutions, write production code, lead the team by modeling work, and represent Data Products to executives, the board, and prospects.   KEY RESPONSIBILITIES   - Own Data Products strategy, roadmap, architecture, and shipping across all four surfaces - Lead the data engineering team through example and hands-on contribution - Gather customer requirements directly from prospects and paying issuers - Scale Shareholder Intelligence from v1 into a commercially significant product - Architect real-time reporting as a customer-facing differentiator - Ship agent-ready API access, MCP server support, and natural-language query capabilities - Own the Immutable Ledger as a trust anchor across products - Build Data Governance for Compliance surfaces including lineage, retention, PII classification - Own Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning for the data platform - Partner with Product Manager on issuer onboarding and data ingestion - Represent Data Products in customer, board, and architecture conversations - Define and track success metrics across adoption, engagement, latency, and unit economics   ROLE REQUIREMENTS   - 8+ years building production software in data-intensive environments - Substantial end-to-end ownership (founder, founding engineer, principal engineer, tech lead) - Currently hands-on shipping production code - Architecting relational data warehouse systems with focus on query performance, schema design, and real-time sync - Track record scaling early-stage data products into commercially significant lines - Strong analytics workflows knowledge (dashboards, reports, exports, embedded analytics) - Data governance practices including lineage, retention, PII classification, access controls - Hands-on experience with AI/ML tools in a product or operational setting - Leading by example with small teams that punch above their weight - Strong written communication for architecture documents, playbooks, and board updates - Direct customer fluency; ability to translate problems into architecture   NICE TO HAVES   - Founder or founding-engineer experience - Exposure to capital markets, transfer agency, or securities settlement - Experience launching shareholder intelligence or financial-intelligence products - Real-time data infrastructure experience (CDC, streaming, sub-second reporting) - Immutable-ledger or compliance-anchored data systems background - Customer-facing API products or natural-language data-query experience - Product experience in regulated environments (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR)   BENEFITS - Competitive cash compensation against Indian Series A benchmarks - Performance-linked variable bonus - Equity-based compensation in USD at Series A pricing - Comprehensive health insurance (self + family) - Provident Fund and statutory benefits - Flexible PTO - In-office position at Mangaluru engineering location