Romi Jakes
Redesigned the core user portal from the ground up. Every major feature since has been built on it.
Taught herself tennis until she could give her pro-athlete husband a match.
Careers
Meet the team
Sarika Merchant
Led CRS to breakeven and built the capital strategy behind exponential growth.
Sarika is a third-degree black belt. Negotiate accordingly.
Ondrej Jaros
Took inspections in-house and fully virtual. Nobody has to wait on a stranger with a clipboard anymore.
Climbs 6,000-meter peaks to fund schools in the Himalayas. When that's not enough, he rafts the Indus.
Semyon Fishman
Made data furnishing something a small lender can actually do. For decades it was a big-bank privilege.
Takes his 14-pound Shichon everywhere — hikes, restaurants, snow sledding.
Cale Dillard
Cale built OffersIQ, the first fully self-service screening platform.
Has lived in 15 different states since joining CRS and can professionally back up a Uhaul truck
Jay Shah
Onboarded the largest housing counseling agency in the country.
Captain Jay learned to sail and sit his skipper test.
Rosalie Kent
Makes sure every launch starts with a customer conversation. Nothing ships on a guess anymore.
Makes custom wedding cakes on the weekends.
Janet Curtis
Cut compliance turnaround from two weeks to under a day. "Waiting on compliance" isn't a sentence anyone says here anymore.
Janet warms up with a five-mile walk. Then the power pilates starts
Laila
Building the knowledge base and the AI tools that get support answers out faster.
Believes the best way to explore a new city is one new restaurant at a time
Charmaine
Runs billing and receivables. If your invoice was right and on time, that was her.
Trail runs in the Arizona desert. She waits for it to hit 100°F.
Antonio Teran
Builds marketing and revenue tools that dictate where the team decides to spend.
Reads Roman history. Ask him about Crassus at Carrhae, but clear your afternoon.
Shea Line
Built the tool that hands every customer a sandbox and custom Postman collection automatically. Before that, someone made them by hand.
Builds motorcycles and test-rides them on the Pacific Coast Highway. Quality control has a view.
Tarik Neradin
Scaled the CRS API from ~31K to more than 1.35M transactions per month, while maintaining 99.9%+ availability
Tarik's "downtime" is playing amateur football, boxing and starting new businesses
McKenna Hawkins
Mykenna knows where credit data and the FCRA meet. She learned it here, start to finish.
Speaking of learning, Mykenna reads 80 books a year.
Tony Udotong
Built an AI agent that runs go-to-market end to end - outreach, call digests and product analytics.
Plans AI hackathons for fun.
Jusuf Misec
Took OffersIQ and LeadsIQ from idea to market.
Played handball professionally. Retired to hiking and the archery range, and calls it slowing down.
Where ambitious builders come to build
- Voted Best Place to Work in Fintech
CRS ranked #3 on American Banker's Best Places to Work list! In bridging the worlds of the traditional credit industry with modern technology, we rely on a team of people from very different backgrounds. We come together as one team, unified by one fight.
- Premium Benefits Program
CRS offers health care, dental, and vision insurance, a 401k match, generous parental leave, and a work from home stipend to help you stay productive wherever you are. We also provide unlimited sick and vacation days so you can take the time you need to rest, recharge, and show up at your best.
- Pleasure to Work With
At CRS, we want to be the kind of company that stands out in an AI age through taste and care. We hire people and work with clients who take pride in doing things well and who are a pleasure to collaborate with. We believe in a distinct and present Way of Being with yourself and others.
- Performance Culture
We're building a network of high-performing peers who speak the same language, agree to the same "Rules of the Game," and deliver extraordinary outcomes reliably. If you're the kind of person who doesn't just do tasks but drives outcomes end to end, you'll feel that CRS is the place for you.
FAQ
What does CRS do?
CRS powers mission critical credit, identity, and fraud data workflows for important institutions across the credit and financial ecosystem. We help teams move faster with more confidence by simplifying data access, integrations, and compliance aligned with usage patterns.
What kinds of problems does CRS solve?
We help teams reduce vendor sprawl, improve decisioning consistency, modernize underwriting and monitoring workflows, and scale high volume operations without creating manual bottlenecks. Our work spans ideation, validation, integration, and long term optimization.
What makes CRS a different place to work than a typical data vendor?
CRS is execution oriented. We do not stop at recommendations. We partner closely with product, engineering, and compliance stakeholders to ship solutions that work in production. If you like building real systems that get used daily, you will fit in well.
What types of roles does CRS hire for?
CRS hires builders across technology, product, and operations, including industry experts, technology professionals, and tenured operators. Teams are designed to be cross functional so you can see how your work connects to real world outcomes.
What is the culture like at CRS?
CRS is remote friendly and built around a growth mindset and an owner mentality. We care more about performance, clarity, and follow-through than about the 9 to 5. The people who thrive here are proactive, collaborative, and ready to fully own their outcomes. One of our deepest commitments is building a company that feels like home for seriously ambitious builders.
How does CRS think about ethics and responsibility?
Compliance is foundational at CRS, not an afterthought. We take seriously who we serve and how our data is used, and we design every solution with Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) requirements in mind from day one. Our workflows are explainable, auditable, and built to withstand real-world scrutiny.
Will I work with regulated data and compliance requirements?
CRS is hands on and collaborative. We work directly with engineering, product, and compliance stakeholders at our customers and partners. The goal is to reduce friction and help teams ship, integrate, and adopt solutions that actually work. It is our aspiration to power the next generation of founders, builders and game changing companies.
What is it like to work with customers at CRS?
CRS is hands on and collaborative. We work directly with engineering, product, and compliance stakeholders at our customers and partners. The goal is to reduce friction and help teams ship, integrate, and adopt solutions that actually work.
Will I get to work across multiple industries?
Yes. CRS supports use cases across consumer and commercial credit, including banks and credit unions, mortgage, card programs, commercial lending, monitoring, and more. Many roles get exposure to multiple verticals and data products.
Do you support remote work?
Yes. CRS supports use cases across consumer and commercial credit, including banks and credit unions, mortgage, card programs, commercial lending, monitoring, and more. Many roles get exposure to multiple verticals and data products.
What does growth and development look like at CRS?
CRS is built for ambitious builders. You will have opportunities to take ownership, learn quickly, and grow your scope as you deliver outcomes. We also operate as an education partner, meaning we invest in helping teams understand the ecosystem and make strong decisions.
How does CRS measure success?
CRS focuses on outcomes that matter in production. That includes shipping, reliability, customer adoption, and measurable improvements in workflow performance such as conversion consistency, approval rates, and operational efficiency.
What is CRS’s take on AI?
CRS focuses on outcomes that matter in production. That includes shipping, reliability, customer adoption, and measurable improvements in workflow performance such as conversion consistency, approval rates, and operational efficiency.