Founding Data Products Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 3, 2026. First seen by Alion on Jul 29, 2026. Vinyl Equity scores B on the Alion truth index.
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