Coris is an AI platform for risk and financial operations, used by platforms, marketplaces, payment providers and banks, including Go Fund Me, Clio and Cherry, to onboard merchants faster, monitor them continuously and act on fraud without adding headcount. One customer described it as "Cursor + Lovable for risk teams." The company is backed by Y Combinator, Lux Capital and Pathlight, and was founded by payments-domain experts Vinodh (CEO) and Shyam (CTO), who each spent more than 20 years in fraud and risk management at Google, eBay, PayPal and WePay. The team is based in Palo Alto.
Every Coris decision runs on data pulled from payment processors and platforms, including Stripe, Adyen, Fiserv, TSYS and Repay, over APIs, webhooks and SFTP file feeds. That amounts to hundreds of millions of events a month and billions of rows in Postgres. The role covers building and operating these processor integrations, extending the partner API and per-customer work, growing the risk engine's signals and rules, and running it in production, including Celery workers, backfills and on-call monitoring.
The engineer will work with messy real-world data: files arriving out of order, inconsistent time zones, misplaced decline codes and malformed webhook payloads. The company says reliable integrations are its competitive moat. The role also expects heavy use of AI coding tools and LLM features, with roughly 10 to 20 percent of time on product-facing TypeScript and Next.js.
Ideal candidates have a few years of production Python experience, ideally with Django and Postgres, and have owned large systems through growth, including schema changes on large tables and concurrency work. Strong SQL skills and an AI-native way of working are expected.
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