Senior Engineering Manager

Coast is re-imagining the trillion-dollar U.S. B2B card payments infrastructure, with a focus on the country’s 500,000 commercial fleets, 10 million commercial vehicles, and 4 million commercial drivers. The incumbent technologies that cater to these customers are decades old, and drivers, fleets, and the merchants that serve them all increasingly demand modern digital experiences and affordable and transparent financial services products. Coast's mission is to deliver them at a transformational scale, and to improve working lives in one of the country’s biggest industry sectors. The company is backed by top fintech and mobility venture funds.

Coast is competing and winning with software, and we are building a world-class engineering team. This is a unique opportunity to get in on the ground level early on, contribute in myriad ways, make key decisions as a leader in the organization, expand your impact as the business grows, have fun, and learn a ton in the process. If you're practical and business-minded, smart and creative, and excited about the rewards and the energy of an early-stage venture-backed startup, we'd love to hear from you.

In order to maximize the velocity of our product engineering, we are hiring in the NYC area only. Our office is located in the heart of Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood, benefiting from its vibrant creative energy. We are in the office on average 4 days a week.

The Senior Engineering Manager ensures the success of the Product Engineering team as a whole. The Product Engineering work is multi-faceted, and a multitude of factors contribute to making the team perform well over a long period of time.

The Senior Engineering Manager will:

• be accountable for all aspects of product engineering team’s performance - velocity of feature delivery, quality, operational excellence, hiring, retention, professional growth, and well-being;
• work closely with the team’s tech leads and product managers;
• provide extra context for technical decisions;
• provide technical guidance to senior engineers and foster consensus in the face of ambiguous requirements and challenging design decisions;
• continuously iterate on team’s metrics and processes, since our teams are cross-functional and run the software they build;
• work with the People Operations organization to run effective performance management;
• help shape the engineering culture of the company;
• continuously work to recruit excellent new engineers at all levels of seniority;
• manage a growing team and create paths for individual contributor growth.

The Senior Engineering Manager must:

• have 12+ years experience working with first-class product engineering teams with a proven track record of consistent and frequent delivery of quality software to production;
• 6+ years as engineering manager;
• be proficient in at least one language ecosystem (Python, Ruby, Java, Kotlin, TypeScript/JavaScript, Go);
• have deep experience working with relational databases;
• deep hands-on knowledge and experience developing in the cloud (preferably AWS) with container management solutions (Kubernetes, ECS) and serverless;
• have mastery of pragmatic application of agile methodologies;
• foster collaborative and inclusive team culture;
• demonstrate expertise in all aspects of software delivery - quality, reasoning through trade-offs, operating software in production, accounting for security, reliability, resiliency.

Compensation

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 the candidates who are offered roles at Coast to fall healthily within the range based on these factors.

• Salary range: $205,000 - $230,000 annually
• Signing bonus
• Equity grant: commensurate with level determined at the discretion of the company, with meaningful potential upside given the company’s early stage
• Benefits overview:
• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Unlimited paid time off (vacation, personal well being, paid holidays)
• Paid parental leave
• $400 accessories allowance (a keyboard, mouse, headphones, etc.)
• Free lunch every Friday

About 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, 10 million commercial vehicles, and 4 million commercial drivers.

Coast is co-founded and led by Daniel Simon, who previously cofounded Bread (breadpayments.com), a leading payments and credit technology firm backed by some of the world’s top VCs which was acquired for $500MM+ in 2020.

Coast has raised $165M in total funding — our recent $40M Series B equity round was led by ICONIQ Growth with participation from Thomvest, and Synchrony. We're also backed by top fintech and mobility venture funds – including Accel, Insight Partners, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Avid Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, BoxGroup, Foundation Capital, Greycroft, Colle – and premier angel investors – including Max Levchin (Affirm), Josh Abramowitz (Bread), Jason Gardner (Marqeta), William Hockey (Plaid), Ryan Petersen (Flexport), and many others.

Check out the latest podcast interview on Fintech Layer Cake with Coast Founder Daniel Simon! 

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.