Staff Forward Deployed Software Engineer
SpruceID provides digital trust infrastructure for government services.
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.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead customer-facing engineering projects from requirements gathering and planning through implementation, deployment, and maintenance. You will make technical design decisions, build backend and full-stack applications and integrations, coordinate stakeholders, manage delivery risks, and mentor other engineers.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, and maintaining production-grade applications
- Experience independently leading medium- to large-scale engineering projects from planning through delivery
- Stakeholder management experience with customers and technical and nontechnical audiences
- Proficiency in Rust, Go, Java, C#, or another statically typed programming language
- Understanding of software architecture, backend development, APIs, system integrations, and cloud infrastructure
- Experience making technical design decisions, evaluating tradeoffs, and solving complex engineering challenges
- Experience collaborating with engineering, product, and delivery functions
- Experience working directly with customers or external partners in technical delivery or implementation environments
- Based in the United States
- Willingness to travel as needed for customer engagements
Responsibilities
- Lead software engineering projects from requirements gathering and planning through implementation, deployment, and maintenance
- Work with internal and external stakeholders to understand requirements, align priorities, manage expectations, and deliver projects
- Own technical design and implementation decisions
- Coordinate dependencies, resolve blockers, and deliver high-quality solutions
- Serve as a technical point of contact for customers and partners
- Architect, develop, and maintain backend systems, full-stack web applications, and integrations
- Translate customer requirements into technical specifications and implementation plans
- Identify technical risks, project dependencies, and delivery-efficiency improvements
- Support integrations with customer infrastructure, third-party services, and legacy systems
- Contribute to code reviews, technical documentation, testing, and engineering best practices
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers
- Share customer feedback and contribute to product and platform improvements