Head of Engineering

Classic Technologies and Business Solutions Pvt Ltd; Ernakulam; On-site; INR 6,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

CTeBS (Classic Technologies & Business Solutions) seeks a Head of Product Engineering to be the senior-most engineering leader, building the leadership layer, culture, and operating model to scale an engineering function from delivery to capability-driven growth. You will lead 30+ engineers across three product teams and report to the Business Unit Head.

This role requires a proven track record in engineering leadership, ownership of hiring pipelines, and a strategic mindset to evolve the

Qualifications

• 14–20 years in software engineering, with 5–8 years in engineering leadership.
• Proven track record of leading orgs with 25+ engineers across multiple teams.
• Active owner of hiring: built pipelines and closed strong candidates.
• Strong communicator—credibility with engineers and business stakeholders.
• Experience in B2B SaaS or enterprise product companies is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead three product engineering teams through Technical Managers and shape culture and operating model.
• Translate product vision into multi-quarter engineering plans and delivery cadence.
• Drive strategic hiring, career ladders, and performance frameworks.
• Represent engineering at leadership level with cost and timeline accountability.
• Drive long-term thinking to balance today’s delivery with future scale.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Hiring at scale

Strategic communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Talent development

Tools

CI/CD

Platform thinking

Developer experience

Job description

About CTeBS

CTeBS (Classic Technologies & Business Solutions) is a purpose-built software company for the fashion manufacturing industry, and a subsidiary of Classic Fashion Apparel Industry Ltd. We build the Trendz Biz Suite — a unified enterprise platform covering production planning, ERP, quality management, HR, and data intelligence for fashion manufacturers.

About CTeBS

CTeBS (Classic Technologies & Business Solutions) is a purpose-built software company for the fashion manufacturing industry, and a subsidiary of Classic Fashion Apparel Industry Ltd. We build the Trendz Biz Suite — a unified enterprise platform covering production planning, ERP, quality management, HR, and data intelligence for fashion manufacturers.
With a 70+ person team in Kochi and live deployments in production, we are now scaling our engineering organisation to match our next phase of growth. This is a pivotal leadership hire.

The Role

As Head of Product Engineering, you will be CTeBS's senior-most engineering leader — building the leadership layer, establishing the culture, and designing the operating model that takes our engineering function from delivery-focused to capability-driven.
You will lead 30+ engineers across three product teams through a layer of Technical Managers, and sit on the CTeBS leadership team reporting directly to the Business Unit Head.

This is not a role for someone looking to grow into engineering leadership. It is for someone who has done it — and wants to do it again with full ownership and executive backing.

What You Will Own

Engineering Organisation & Culture

• Lead three product engineering teams through Technical Managers — build their capability as much as the team's


• Establish engineering values, norms, and a culture of accountability, ownership, and craft


• Design and implement career ladders, performance frameworks, and individual development plans


• Drive active, structured hiring — own the talent pipeline from sourcing to onboarding
  

Strategy & Delivery

• Translate product vision and business goals into multi-quarter engineering plans


• Move the organisation from reactive firefighting to proactive, planned delivery


• Own platform architecture direction in partnership with Solution Architecture


• Represent engineering credibly at the leadership table — costs, timelines, tradeoffs
  

Team Building & Long-Term Thinking

• Identify structural risks, capability gaps, and technical debt early — and build plans to address them


• Create an environment where strong engineers stay, grow, and do their best work


• Balance the urgency of today's delivery with the investment required for tomorrow's scale
  

What We Are Looking For

Must-Have

• 14–20 years in software engineering, with 5–8 years in engineering leadership — managing managers, not just engineers


• Demonstrated experience leading engineering organisations of 25+ people across multiple teams in a B2B SaaS or enterprise product company


• Proven track record of building engineering culture — not just inheriting a healthy team


• Active owner of hiring: built pipelines, interviewed at scale, closed strong candidates


• Strong communicator — equally credible with engineers and business stakeholders
  

Strongly Preferred

• Exposure to manufacturing, supply chain, ERP, or industrial enterprise software domains


• Experience leading an engineering org through a growth or transformation phase


• Prior title of Director of Engineering, VP Engineering, or Head of Engineering at a product company


• Familiarity with modern engineering practices — CI/CD, platform thinking, developer experience
  

What Success Looks Like

• Deep understanding of team health, delivery state, and key risks across all three teams: First 30 days


• Technical Managers identified or in place; clear ownership and accountability structures established: 60 days


• Engineering metrics baseline set; active hiring pipeline running; firefighting visibly reduced: 90 days


• Career frameworks live; delivery predictability measurably higher; morale and retention improved: 6 months


• High-performing, self-directed engineering org; CTeBS scales into new product lines without engineering being the bottleneck: 12 months

Why This Role. Why CTeBS.

• Real ownership — your decisions will shape the organisation visibly and lastingly, with full executive backing


• Fashion manufacturing is a massive, underserved industry — purpose-built software for this space is rare, and CTeBS is building it


• The product is live, customers are real — the next phase is about scale, not survival


• Build the engineering leadership layer largely from scratch — a rare, career-defining opportunity


• Kochi offers a strong and growing engineering talent pool with quality of life that metros cannot match