Founding Engineer

Bustem.com | Founding Engineer | NYC (On-site) | $140k–$180k + 0.25%–1.0%

Bustem helps e-commerce brands & more, find and shut down copycats, counterfeiters, and unauthorized sellers.

In <12 months: $3M+ ARR, 150+ brands, profitable, no outside capital.

We’re hiring a Founding Engineer to build the core systems behind detection + enforcement.

What you’ll do:

Build real-time infringer detection (scraping + AI)

Build automated enforcement systems (agents/workflows at scale)

Own systems end-to-end (architecture → deployment → iteration)

Stack:

Next.js, Postgres, modern backend infra, LLMs

You:

Ship fast, high ownership

Comfortable with ambiguity

Build systems, not tickets

Why join:

Profitable + real traction

No legacy / no bureaucracy

Direct impact on product + revenue

Early enough to matter a lot

NYC in-person

Email: genci@bustem.co

(send CV & GitHub / projects)