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# Engineering Manager at Coast

- **Company:** Coast
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Posted:** 2026-07-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/coast/jobs/6127535004

## Job description

Engineering Manager

New York City, NY

What is Coast

At Coast, we're building the financial infrastructure powering America's fleets.

Founded in 2020, Coast has become the payments and expense management platform of choice for the 500,000 fleets and 40 million vehicles that keep the country moving — giving fleet owners and operators control, visibility, and trust over how their businesses spend.

Simplicity is our competitive advantage. In an industry where complexity is the norm, we're building something opinionated and focused: software that field workers and fleet managers actually want to use. Every member of our fully co-located team is a builder who cares deeply about bringing modern, well-crafted tools to the trades — an industry that's been underserved for too long.

## About the Role

We're hiring an Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers focused on increasing the number of fleets on the Coast platform. You'll partner directly with Product and Design to ship high-impact capabilities that move critical business metrics.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You'll set technical direction, coach engineers by engaging with their real work, lead by example, and raise the bar on how the team operates. You will have the opportunity to help shape a fast-growing engineering organization.

Coast is an in-person company, with flexibility to work from home ~1 day per week. This role is based out of our New York City office. We believe great products are built by people in the room together, collaborating closely, moving fast, and pushing each other to raise the bar.

## What You’ll Do

- Own delivery for your team — keep engineers unblocked, motivated, and focused on the work that drives Coast forward.
- Partner with Product and Design to drive measurable business outcomes by defining and shipping the best-in-class fuel and fleet spend user experience, and public APIs
- Provide technical leadership by engaging with architecture, implementation, and engineering fundamentals.
- Coach and develop engineers through close attention to their actual work.
- Build AI fluency across your team, modeling its use in your own workflow, setting expectations for how engineers engage with AI-assisted development, and identifying where AI features can create durable product leverage for Coast's customers.
- Build a healthy, high-performing, inclusive team culture, and hire in a manner that perpetuates excellence.

What success looks like in 6 months

- Your team ships predictably against clearly defined roadmap commitments.
- The business metrics owned by your team are tracking at or above projections.
- You have re-engineered how software gets built so AI becomes part of the operating model; code production, review, testing, and delivery are meaningfully restructured around it.
- There is a high degree of trust and clarity within your team and amongst its stakeholders.
- You have grown at least one engineer into a tech lead role

## What we’re looking for

- 4+ years of success managing engineers, with a track record of growing engineers to the next level.
- 8+ years in web systems development.
- Strong technical judgment: making sound architectural decisions, managing technical debt, and upholding high engineering standards.
- Hands-on experience implementing AI-driven features in production.
- Experience developing AI fluency in engineering teams.
- Excellent communication: you understand that effective communication is critical to success and you translate technical concepts clearly for diverse stakeholders and keep projects moving.
- Proven experience hiring and developing talent.
- Entrepreneurial mindset and comfort working in an early- to mid-stage startup environment where ambiguity and pace are part of the fun.

## What we offer

- A leadership role where you'll own a core part of our product, set its technical direction, and see your decisions reach thousands of customers.
- Competitive salary ($230,000 - $250,000 USD) and equity
- Company-sponsored 401(k)
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible paid time off (vacation, personal well being, paid holidays)
- Paid parental leave
- $400 accessories allowance (a keyboard, mouse, headphones, etc.)
- Education stipend
- Tools to help manage your financial wellness, including webinar, and access to an equity tax advisory service
- Free lunch on Fridays

Coast is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are building a diverse and inclusive environment, so we encourage people of all backgrounds to apply. We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Learn how we think

- [Fleet payments and embedded fintech done right](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swuVmnAa-pU&t=1050s&pp=ygUSZGFuaWVsIHNpbW9uIGNvYXN0) podcast episode with our founder and CEO, Daniel Simon
- [Fueling the Financial Operating System for Fleets: Our Partnership with Coast](https://www.iconiq.com/growth/insights/fueling-the-financial-operating-system-for-fleets-our-partnership-with-coast) ICONIQ Series B blog post

## About Coast

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Coast provides a Visa fleet fuel and gas card combined with an expense management platform to help trades and transportation businesses control, track, and simplify spending on fuel and other fleet expenses.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Daniel Simon (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial technology (fintech) for fleet management
- **Target customers**: B2B – small to medium-sized businesses in the trades (e.g., construction, plumbing, HVAC) and transportation sectors.
- **Mission statement**: “Drive fleets forward with smart financial tools to empower everyday businesses.”

## Products & Services
- **[Coast Fleet Card](https://coastpay.com/)**: A Visa commercial card (physical and virtual) for fuel, maintenance, and other fleet expenses, with real-time spend controls and GPS-linked fraud detection.
- **[Expense Management Platform](https://coastpay.com/)**: A SaaS dashboard that automates expense categorization, integrates with telematics providers, and provides visibility into fleet spending.
- **[Fraud Protection](https://coastpay.com/)**: A $25,000 fuel fraud guarantee and advanced security features such as transaction alerts based on GPS location and suspicious activity patterns.
- **[Integrations](https://coastpay.com/)**: Seamless connections with telematics and fleet management systems (e.g., GPS tracking, fuel card networks) to consolidate data.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Total Funding**: $165.5 million raised across multiple rounds.
  - **Series B (July 2024)**: $40 million led by ICONIQ Growth.
  - **Debt Financing (March 2024)**: $67 million.
  - **Series A (February 2022)**: $27.5 million led by Insight Partners and Accel.
  - **Seed Round (July 2021)**: $6 million led by Better Tomorrow Ventures.
- **Key Metric**: Employee headcount of 118 (as of mid-2025), representing ~30% year-over-year growth.
- **Notable Investors**: ICONIQ Growth, Accel, Insight Partners, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Avid Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, BoxGroup, Foundation Capital, Greycroft, Colle, and angel investors including founders of Affirm, Marqeta, Plaid, and Flexport.
- **Growth Signals**: Expanded headcount by 40 people in the last year; active job postings for engineering, sales, and product roles; presence in New York City and Salt Lake City.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Niche focus on trades & transportation**: Unlike general corporate cards, Coast tailors its product to the specific needs of fleets (fuel, maintenance, telematics integration).
- **Fraud guarantee**: The $25,000 fuel fraud guarantee provides strong risk mitigation for businesses.
- **Simple pricing**: A flat $4 per active user per month with no annual fees, making cost predictable.
- **Deep telematics integrations**: Partnerships with GPS and fleet tracking providers allow automatic expense reconciliation.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expand customer base in the trades vertical**: Target small fleets that still rely on manual processes or legacy fuel cards.
- **Deepen product capabilities**: Add more automation, controls, and analytics to the expense management platform.
- **Strengthen partnerships**: Build more integrations with telematics and fleet management systems to increase stickiness and data richness.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & values**: Emphasis on collaboration, ownership, transparency, speed, and customer obsession. Described as “ambitious and dedicated” with a supportive, vibrant office atmosphere.
- **Work policy**: Office-first culture – employees are expected to be in the office most days of the week. Locations in New York, NY (HQ) and Salt Lake City, UT.
- **Perks & benefits**: Health, dental, and vision with options for 100% premium coverage; stock options; flexible vacation; free Friday lunches; parental leave; commuter benefits; $400 tech and desk stipend.
- **Engineering culture**: Teams are empowered to move fast, own outcomes, and work cross-functionally. High technical standards with a bias for action.
- **Growth trajectory**: Backed by top-tier investors and scaling rapidly, offering career growth in a high-visibility fintech startup.

## Sources
1. [coastpay.com/careers/](https://coastpay.com/careers/)
2. [coastpay.com](https://coastpay.com/)
3. [linkedin.com/company/coastpay](https://www.linkedin.com/company/coastpay)
4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/coast](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/coast/jobs/5544756004)
5. [coastpay.com/about/](https://coastpay.com/about/)

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