Lead Data Engineer, Coast
$170-220k
+ Equity
3-4 days a week in office
Payments platform & fuel card for fleets
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Payments platform & fuel card for fleets
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$170-220k
+ Equity
3-4 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
Coast's mission is to make fleet management easy.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ 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
- AI-native mindset: you’re already using AI tools in your daily work and you’re excited to push further
- Experience with data warehouses such as Redshift or Snowflake (we use Redshift), data pipeline tools (we use Dagster), dbt, and medallion architecture
- Proficiency in Python
- Experience leading a horizontal Data Engineering team, working with analytics and product engineering teams
- Mentorship experience, both of data engineers and members of other teams who have to touch data products
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Bias toward action and process-building; you don’t wait for someone to hand you a playbook
- Comfortable in ambiguity; you can build structure where none exists without losing momentum
- New York City based; able to be in-office 3–4 days per week
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Lead Data Engineer who can not just get their hands dirty building pipelines and also act as a thought leader for the company
- Data sits at the center of everything we do, and we need someone who not only understands how to make it available, but how to make it accessible to everyone in the company
- In the age of AI, making good decisions is key, and having accurate data is a core part of our decision-making process
- You won't be starting from scratch
- We already run on Redshift, Dagster, and dbt, but the biggest pieces are still yours to build: a data catalog, a semantic layer, a mature security posture, and AI-ready access to our data
- This is a chance to lead a small, high-leverage team and touch all corners of the company, not just reporting and analytics
- Our data organization follows a federated model: product teams own their data products, and the data platform gives them the patterns, tools, and guardrails to do that well
- Your job isn't to be the team everyone files tickets with; it's to make everyone else at Coast better at producing and using data
- Own Our Data Warehouse
- Set standards and build patterns for ingesting data
- Make sure data consumers can build models efficiently and quickly
- Build new capabilities, like data catalogs and semantic layers that make data discoverable for your coworkers across the company
- Set data security standards, including tokenization, RBAC, and row-level security
- Provide High-Quality Patterns
- You should have opinions, we want you to be the expert on the best way to produce and consume data
- Figure out how to make data usable, whether via reverse ETL or making it available to AI agents
- Be a Teacher
- Help our product engineering teams evolve from treating data as exhaust to building DDD-based data products
- Teach nontechnical users how to consume data using AI tools without needing to learn SQL
- Evangelize new practices and patterns that present opportunities for Coast to remain innovative and nimble
- Write Code
- Contribute to our data pipelines in Python
- Build CI/CD pipelines for data products
- Contribute new data tests for dbt
- ---In your first year, you’ll be successful if you:
- Provide a model for understanding our data warehouse costs
- Ship a data catalog that helps all employees know where to find good data
- Have a strategy and have made real progress on building a data security posture, including row-level security, RBAC, and tokenization
- Have a strategy and have made real progress on making our data safely accessible to AI agents
Our take
In recent years, companies like Ramp, Brex, Divvy, and others have emerged to provide easier ways for companies to allow their employees to pay for job-related expenses through corporate cards. However, none of these services really work for businesses operating automobile fleets, approximately 10% of B2B card spend in the US.
That’s where Coast comes in, offering a modern card issuing expense solution specifically built for fleets. The Coast card meets the demands of fleet-specific controls, security, and visibility, contributing to preventing fraud and unauthorised use. Its platform allows fleet managers to visualise spend, block or flag transactions for review, and set their own rules for cardholders.
With back-to-back funding rounds awarded in 2024, Coast has been focused on expanding its team and the platform’s capabilities, offering a wider range of financial products - including parking, maintenance, and other on-the-road expenses on top of just fuel. Its Visa Fleet card program, which enables Coast Visa Fleet cardholders to make payments wherever Visa is accepted, makes it an attractive option in the market as fleet management continues to modernise.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
52% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2024
$40m
SERIES B
Mar 2024
$25m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $98.5m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Meaningful stock options
- Flexible vacation policy
Company HQ
SoHo, New York, NY
Leadership
Daniel Simon
(Founder & CEO)Previously co-founded consumer finance startup Bread, which sold to Alliance Data Systems for over $500 million in 2020.
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