Product Engineer, Foundations Team

New York, NY — in-office 3–4 days per week

About the 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.

The Foundations team at Coast is responsible for the essential services that allow our customers to transact with confidence — whether it is ensuring we are processing payments, the authorization engine that decides whether to approve transactions, or the SMS flows that drivers rely on for essential spending information. The team keeps the engine running that allows the rest of engineering to provide a delightful experience to customers. Whoever joins will get visibility across engineering, risk and underwriting, finance, product, and design. Coast has embraced AI as an organization and is excited to both improve internal processes and build better experiences for customers. This is a high-agency role suited to engineers who want a large amount of autonomy and responsibility, working in a cross-functional team, meeting the velocity needs of a growing organization, and owning outcomes across the whole technology stack. The team iterates quickly, prioritizes learning from clients, builds quality in, and remains ruthlessly pragmatic.

Responsibilities

• Build product features end-to-end, from web UI to distributed services back end
• Evaluate and integrate critical third-party software and infrastructure including the payments stack
• Challenge the team to automate, improve process, simplify, and raise the bar for quality
• Help shape the engineering culture of the company
• Have a voice in early technology and implementation choices

First-Year Goals

• Lead a project from idea to production
• Implement one AI-based solution that improves product quality across all of engineering
• Contribute to the team culture by bringing expertise from previous roles

Requirements

• 4–10+ years experience working with first-class engineering teams with a proven track record of frequent delivery of quality software to production
• Experience working on business-critical services
• AI-native mindset: already using AI tools in daily work and excited to push further
• Owned the full lifecycle of solutions from ideation, to delivery, to iteration
• Substantial experience with server-side programming, variety of databases (Postgres, DynamoDB), messaging, REST and APIs in general, distributed systems
• Experience with modern web development in TypeScript
• Extensive experience working in cross-functional agile teams in collaboration with product and design
• Hands-on knowledge developing applications in the cloud (preferably AWS)
• Proven history of delivering complex, highly available and scalable distributed systems
• Pragmatic and gets stuff done
• Passionate about building amazing products for customers
• Able to work independently with little oversight or management in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with high-energy, mission-driven colleagues

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 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: $160,000 – $215,000 annually

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

Benefits

• 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