Coris (YC S22) Is Hiring Back End Engineer

Coris is the AI platform for risk and financial operations. Platforms, marketplaces, payment providers, and banks - GoFundMe, Clio, Cherry, and a growing list - use Coris to onboard merchants faster, monitor them continuously, and act on fraud without adding headcount. One customer described us as "Cursor + Lovable for risk teams."

We're backed by Y Combinator, Lux Capital, and Pathlight, founded by payments-domain experts, and growing quickly on customer pull. We're a small team; this hire owns a large share of the backend.

Coris was started by Vinodh (CEO) and Shyam (CTO). We've each spent 20+ years in fraud and risk management, running risk engineering, operations and product teams at Google, eBay, PayPal and WePay. You'll work directly with both of us in Palo Alto.

Every Coris decision runs on data we pull from payment processors and platforms: Stripe, Adyen, Fiserv, TSYS, Repay, and more, over APIs, webhooks, and SFTP file feeds - hundreds of millions of events a month, billions of rows in Postgres. On top of that sits a signals and rules engine, an account graph, and the partner-facing API our customers build on.

Here's the honest version of the work. Files arrive out of order over SFTP. One processor sends dates in UTC, another in the merchant's local time, and neither says which. A processor's decline code lives in a different column than the spec says. A webhook ships malformed JSON at 2am. A backfill worker runs out of memory on a 40B-row table. A customer's risk lead says "our numbers look off" and needs an answer today.

We're hiring the engineer who will own all of that end-to-end, and who thinks it's the interesting part - because every integration we make reliably is one a competitor hasn't, and that's the moat. Getting the boring work right every time is how enduring companies are built!