Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
SpruceID provides digital trust infrastructure for government services.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
Funding history
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.
Skills
Candidate Availability
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About the Role
Design, build, and deploy privacy-preserving identity solutions for state governments and enterprise customers. Translate customer requirements into technical architectures and implementations, advise partners on standards adoption, develop backend and web or mobile applications, and manage deployments and operations while working directly with customers.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience shipping backend software in statically typed languages such as C#, Rust, Go, or Java
- Experience shipping modern web frontends meeting accessibility and security standards
- Ability to lead cross-functional engineering efforts and deliver production systems
- Hands-on cloud infrastructure experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure and DevOps practices
- Excellent communication skills and direct customer-facing consulting or delivery experience
- Based in the United States
- Bonus: foundation in digital identity, cryptography, data privacy, or blockchain
- Bonus: prior public-sector software project experience
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of products and solutions for state governments and enterprise customers
- Collaborate with customer delivery leads, engineers, and UX designers on project delivery and deployments
- Translate customer requirements into technical architectures and working implementations
- Advise public-sector partners on standards adoption and best practices
- Build backend software and full-stack web and mobile applications
- Contribute to Rust codebases across backend, mobile, and browser environments
- Manage customer deployments and support operations
Benefits
- Equity