Head of Engineering

About Krank:

We are a technology-driven SaaS company building products for the heavy equipment and industrial sector. Our ecosystem includes:

• Web-based marketplace and workflow platforms

• React Native mobile applications for iOS and Android

• Smart glassesbased workflows for remote inspections

• AWS-hosted backend services built using

We work at the intersection of engineering product design and modern cloud technologies to deliver efficient reliable and real-world solutions for industrial operations. Our culture is highly collaborative product-focused and centered on building meaningful tools that improve field workflows inspections and equipment management at scale.

About Inspeq:

Inspeq is a SaaS platform for inspections asset management and work orders. Its designed for heavy equipment rental mining and construction companies enabling them to manage operations more efficiently with modular configurable workflows and AI-powered features like Remote Workorders (live remote guidance) and AI Discrepancy Reports.

Role Overview:

We are looking for a Head of Engineering to own engineering strategy and end-to-end delivery for our product-based company. This role is accountable for engineering outcomes delivery predictability and long-term technical sustainability across all products.

You will own system design infrastructure technical decision-making and execution excellence across backend frontend mobile DevOps and QA teams working closely with Product and Design to build scalable secure and compliant products.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own engineering architecture system design and infrastructure decisions across all products
• Lead backend frontend mobile DevOps and QA under a unified engineering function
• Drive end-to-end product delivery from architecture through to production
• Define and own delivery cadence planning milestones and execution discipline
• Design and review scalable high-availability and resilient system architectures
• Own cloud infrastructure deployments scalability reliability and cost optimization
• Ensure engineering quality performance security and compliance (e.g. GDPR)
• Own production reliability incident management post-mortems and continuous improvement
• Collaborate closely with Product and Design to ensure smooth execution and clear ownership
• Define engineering standards processes and long-term technical vision
• Own technical debt strategy and platform health across products
• Evaluate and manage third-party tools vendors and technology partners

Core Technical & Leadership Requirements:

• 7 years of hands-on engineering experience with at least 3 years in a leadership role
• Strong backend experience with NestJS and SQL & NoSQL databases
• Frontend experience with React React Native and
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure including:
  ECS EC2 ECR API Gateway Load Balancers Lambda
• Strong experience with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Proven expertise in system design distributed systems and infrastructure architecture
• Experience or strong working knowledge of OpenAI integrations and Generative AI systems
• Strong understanding of compliance data protection and secure system design
• Experience scaling SaaS products (users data teams or revenue)
• Experience leading distributed or remote engineering teams
• Strong stakeholder communication skills

Leadership & Product Engineering:

• Proven ability to hire lead and scale cross-functional engineering teams
• Strong ownership of end-to-end product engineering and delivery
• Ability to make clear high-impact technical and architectural decisions
• Comfortable balancing speed quality and long-term sustainability
• Hands-on when needed without becoming a bottleneck