Principal Forward Deployed Engineer
SpruceID provides digital trust infrastructure for government services. Its standards-based products help governments and other organizations issue, verify, and manage privacy-preserving digital credentials, including wallets, SSO, fraud prevention, and workflow modernization.
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About SpruceID
SpruceID builds privacy-preserving digital identity and trust infrastructure for government, financial institutions, and enterprises. Its offerings include digital IDs and wallets, identity gateways and SSO, verification, document intake, form modernization, legacy-system integration, and zero-trust security capabilities. The company helps states and cities modernize service delivery through interoperable, standards-based digital credentials and data systems that reduce fraud and support resident control of personal data.
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About the Role
You define technical strategy and architecture for public-sector deployments, lead multi-year projects from prototyping through operations, and build backend, web, and mobile systems. You represent the technical function in executive customer meetings, translate government requirements into standards-based solutions, mentor engineers, improve delivery efficiency, and contribute customer insights to product and identity standards roadmaps.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience designing, building, and delivering production-grade software
- Experience with statically typed languages such as Rust, Go, Java, or C#
- Experience leading large-scale engineering efforts across multiple teams and organizations
- Expertise in infrastructure, DevOps, architecture, frontend, and mobile development
- Experience in public-sector or highly regulated industries
- Executive-level and technical customer engagement experience
- U.S. residence
- Willingness to travel
Responsibilities
- Define technical strategy and architecture for public-sector deployments
- Represent the technical function in executive customer meetings
- Lead multi-year projects from prototyping through operations and maintenance
- Architect and build backend, web, and mobile systems
- Translate government requirements into standards-based solutions
- Mentor forward-deployed engineers and delivery teams
- Drive efficiencies and share knowledge across projects
- Contribute customer insights to product roadmaps and identity standards
Benefits
- Equity