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# Lead Data Engineer at Coast

- **Company:** Coast
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Posted:** 2026-06-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/coast/jobs/6098241004

## Job description

What is Coast

Coast is re-imagining the trillion-dollar U.S. B2B card payments infrastructure, with a focus on the country’s 500,000 commercial fleets, 40 million commercial vehicles, and many millions of commercial drivers. The incumbent technologies that cater to these customers are decades old, and businesses with fleets increasingly demand modern digital experiences and transparent financial services products. Coast’s mission is to deliver this at a transformational scale, beginning with the Coast Fleet and Fuel Card built on a cutting-edge spend management platform.

## About the Role

We are looking for a leader of the Coast data engineering team to shape our company’s data culture and underlying infrastructure.

At Coast, the success of our data platform is driving accelerating demand from all corners of the company. We’re looking for a key builder to help us meet this moment. In this role, you will drive the evolution of our modern, cloud-native data platform. This is a chance to lead a small, high-leverage team and make a definitive impact, building the systems that help us understand risk, acquire customers, and create a better financial product. You will be building on a solid foundation that lets you focus on high-impact work from day one. Our data engineering organization follows the federated model of data product ownership—the data platform serves as the foundation, not the first line of defense against data issues.

We need you to help us establish a vision for the data ecosystem evolution while satisfying day to day demands of a rapidly growing early stage startup.

You will report directly to the Head of Engineering and work from our NYC office.

## What You’ll Do

- lead design and implementation of all aspects of our data ecosystem — from obtaining third party data to building our own data products, from infrastructure architecture to end-user BI and data exploration toolchain;
- evangelize and implement the best practices, from reasoning about statistical significance to granting data access via AI tools, from source control and change management to database migrations;
- establish guardrails for self-serve ecosystem for the business users;
- help our product engineering teams evolve from treating data as exhaust to building DDD-based data products;
- enhance our ETL/ELT patterns, from landing zone to semantic layers;
- ensure that our metrics are built on top of consistent, curated data with clear stewardship;
- oversee our connected SaaS data landscape;
- own the budget for the data infrastructure and develop a sensible cost allocation model;
- safeguard our data, from tokenization and access controls, to retention and backups;
- remain relentlessly pragmatic and balance the daily demands or a fast-growing startup business with the needs of a well-managed platform;

## Requirements

- have 7-10+ years hands-on experience working across the data ecosystem, from modern ETL/ELT and orchestration to data warehouses and columnar stores, from BI tooling for less-technical business users to SQL optimization;
- have software engineering mindset, leading with the principles of source control, infrastructure as code, testing, modularity, automation, CICD, and observability;
- bring in a strong professional network, since it is impossible to know everything, and one must be able to tap others for advice;
- have experience working directly with product engineers as well as business users;
- be proficient in Python, since you would be expected to contribute data platform aspects into product engineering code as well as write your own tools;
- be able to figure stuff out - the modern data space is deep and complex, and there are many ways of solving the same problem; you need to be able to go off on your own, research and design a solution, implement technical spikes, and then deliver it through responsible change management;
- have an owner mindset and continuously look for, notice, and implement improvements to our data infrastructure, because small continuous improvements matter;
- be a thought-leader that keeps a finger on the pulse of the industry - vendor landscape, industry trends;
- work from our NYC SoHo office at least four days a week.

## Compensation and Benefits

Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and industry, and are one part of our total compensation package that also includes benefits, signing bonus, and equity. Pay decisions are based on a number of factors, including scope and qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to other Coast employees. We expect the majority of candidates who are offered roles at Coast to fall healthily within the range based on these factors.

Salary range: $170K-$220K

Equity Grant: Meaningful potential upside given Coast’s early-stage trajectory

Benefits Overview:

- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- Flexible paid time off (vacation, personal well being, paid holidays)
- Tools to help manage your financial wellness, including webinars, access to an equity tax advisory service, and company-sponsored 401(k)
- Paid parental leave
- $400 accessories allowance (a keyboard, mouse, headphones, etc.)
- Education stipend
- Free lunch every Friday

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.

Check out the latest podcast interview on[Fintech Layer Cake with Coast Founder Daniel Simon](https://fintechlayercake.buzzsprout.com/1985266/14997028-fleet-card-masterclass-with-coast-founder-daniel-simon)!

## 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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