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Principal Forward Deployed Engineer

SpruceID
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Hybrid (US)$200k - $225kFull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

SpruceID privacy-preserving, standards-based digital identity and credentialing solutions. The role combines technical leadership with strategic delivery, leading public-sector deployments and shaping architecture, adoption strategy, and roadmaps. Fully remote within the US.

Responsibilities

  • Define technical strategy and architecture for public sector deployments, ensuring both technical excellence and alignment with policy and operational needs
  • Act as the senior technical representative in executive-level customer meetings, bridging the gap between technical details and business or policy outcomes
  • Lead multiple end-to-end multi-year projects from rapid prototyping to development to operations and maintenance
  • Architect and build backend systems, full-stack web applications, and mobile solutions with a focus on security, privacy, and accessibility
  • Translate government requirements into robust, standards-based solutions that integrate with both modern and legacy systems
  • Mentor and guide forward deployed engineers and delivery teams, setting standards for high-quality engineering and customer collaboration
  • Identify and drive efficiencies across projects, ensuring knowledge and tooling are shared across teams
  • Collaborate with platform teams to feed customer insights into SpruceID’s roadmap and contributions to global identity standards

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience designing, building, and delivering production-grade software in statically typed languages (Rust, Go, Java, C#)
  • Proven ability to lead large-scale engineering efforts that span multiple teams and organizations
  • Strong expertise across the software development stack, including infrastructure, devops, architecture, frontend, and mobile
  • Demonstrated experience working with public sector or highly regulated industries, including direct customer engagement at both executive and technical levels
  • Excellent leadership, communication, and consulting skills with the ability to influence strategy as well as execution
  • Based in the US and willing to travel as needed to support state government partners

Skills

Required:Software design and architectureLeadership and stakeholder managementPublic sector / regulatory experienceFull-stack development
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About SpruceID

SpruceID lets users control their data across the web.

SpruceID lets users control their data across the web. Instead of people signing into platforms, we imagine platforms should sign into people’s data vaults. We implement this pattern into digital wallet ecosystems for governments, enterprises, and blockchains. We believe that architectures that enable individual autonomy in the digital world are necessary for free societies and dynamic economies to thrive.

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