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Lead Data Engineer

Coast · New York, NY · On-site

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About Coast

The first AI-powered demo platform designed to sell, market and implement technical products with ease. Backed by Y Combinator.

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.

What they're looking for

  • 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,
  • have an owner mindset and continuously look for, notice, and implement improvements to our data infrastructure, because small continuous improvements matter,
More about this role

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.

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...

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