Senior Software Engineer — Ground Floor Real-Time AI

Bustem; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch and dinner stipend

Bi-weekly team events

Close collaboration with founder/CTO

Job summary

Bustem is hiring a Senior Software Engineer at the founding level to own major parts of the product. You will shape architecture, enforce high standards, and drive the technical bar for real-time detection and enforcement against counterfeiters.

You will work directly with the CTO to build scalable backend systems, mentor peers, and ship AI-enabled workflows that protect 120+ brands across marketplaces and the open web.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in early-stage or bootstrapped startups.
• Owned a system end-to-end at real scale with actual users or data.
• Capable of architecture tradeoffs with minimal oversight and ownership of incidents.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical bar with senior architectural judgment and code quality.
• Mentor engineers and make infrastructure decisions independently.
• Build AI-powered real-time scraping and detection systems for abuse prevention.
• Own backend systems and APIs using Next.js, PostgreSQL, and TypeScript.

Skills

System design

Mentorship

Production ownership

AI/LLMs integration

Strong communication

Tools

Next.js

PostgreSQL

TypeScript

Job description

Bustem is hiring a Senior Software Engineer at the founding level to own major parts of the product. You will shape architecture, enforce high standards, and drive the technical bar for real-time detection and enforcement against counterfeiters.

You will work directly with the CTO to build scalable backend systems, mentor peers, and ship AI-enabled workflows that protect 120+ brands across marketplaces and the open web.