Lead Software Engineer

MARS Cosmetics; Delhi; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cosmetics company based in Delhi is seeking a Software Engineer Lead to spearhead the development of internal applications, automation, and AI systems. This role is focused on building scalable solutions and leading a team while ensuring high system quality and effective integration across various business tools. Ideal candidates should have strong full-stack engineering capabilities, experience in product development, and a passion for simplifying complex workflows thereby improving organizational efficiency.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of APIs, databases, and modern software architecture.
• Experience building real products and internal platforms from scratch.
• Ability to operate effectively with high ownership in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of internal tools and automation layers.
• Drive AI adoption in practical business use cases.
• Mentor a small engineering team and establish engineering standards.

Skills

Full-stack or backend engineering capability

Strong system design skills

AI-enabled applications experience

Product thinking and business empathy

Ability to simplify and ship

Tools

React

Node.js

PostgreSQL

FastAPI

Job description

MARS Cosmetics is hiring a Software Engineer Lead to build and lead internal software, automation, and AI systems across the organisation. This role is for someone who can combine strong engineering judgment with speed, product sense, and practical business understanding.

You will work closely with leadership and cross-functional teams to turn operational complexity into simple, scalable software.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead development of internal tools, workflow systems, dashboards, and automation layers across functions.
• Drive AI adoption in practical business use cases such as knowledge search, reporting, decision support, content workflows, and process automation.
• Architect scalable, maintainable systems while keeping execution fast and pragmatic.
• Translate ambiguous business problems into clear product and engineering solutions.
• Build and mentor a small engineering team over time.
• Establish engineering standards across code quality, system design, reliability, documentation, and security.
• Integrate internal systems across business tools, databases, APIs, and external platforms.

What We’re Looking For

• Strong full-stack or backend engineering capability with solid system design skills.
• Experience building real products, internal platforms, or workflow software from scratch.
• Strong understanding of APIs, databases, integrations, and modern software architecture.
• Practical experience with AI-enabled applications, LLM workflows, automations, or internal copilots.
• Ability to operate with high ownership in a fast-moving environment.
• Strong product thinking and business empathy.
• Someone who builds, simplifies, and ships — not just manages.

Preferred

• Familiarity with React, Node.js, Next.js, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, cloud deployment, and workflow automation.
• Experience working across ops, sales, supply chain, finance, or marketing systems is a plus.
• Prior experience leading engineers or owning technical direction is preferred.

Ideal Candidate

• Builder first, leader second.
• Strong on first principles and execution.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and messy real-world workflows.
• High ownership, low ego, and high standards.
• Interested in using software and AI to make an organisation meaningfully more effective.

Why This Role Matters

This role will help build the internal software and AI backbone of MARS Cosmetics — reducing manual work, improving decision-making, and making execution faster and less people-dependent.