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 advantages

Flexible PTO

In-office position at Mangaluru engineering location

📌 Founding Data Products Engineer (Mangalore)
🏢 Vinyl Equity
📍 Mangalore