Senior/Staff Forward-Deployed Engineer – Mobile

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🖥 Software Engineer

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Spruce Systems, Inc.

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11 - 50 employees

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Consulting • Logistics

Spruce Systems, Inc. is a company that specializes in creating verifiable digital credentials for identity management. They provide end-to-end solutions that include the issuance and verification of digital IDs, passes, permits, and data supply chain credentials. Their services are utilized across various sectors, including government, financial services, healthcare, education, and marketplaces. Spruce's platforms and open-source libraries, like SpruceKit, facilitate easy integration of digital credential capabilities, enhancing privacy and security. With a focus on privacy-by-design, Spruce ensures digital identity management that is both user-centric and secure.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and maintain production-grade mobile applications for digital identity and credentialing, particularly for government partners • Lead development of secure digital identity wallets for receiving, storing, managing, and presenting digital credentials • Develop and maintain native iOS and/or Android applications with emphasis on platform capabilities, performance, reliability, security, and user experience • Architect and implement features involving secure credential storage, device authentication, biometric authentication, cryptographic operations, and privacy-preserving data exchange • Integrate emerging identity standards into mobile applications and SDKs • Collaborate with engineers, designers, product teams, and government partners to translate complex requirements into accessible mobile experiences • Build and maintain integrations with backend APIs, identity issuance systems, credential verification services, and platform security features • Contribute to Rust-based shared libraries and cross-platform components • Own the mobile engineering lifecycle from architecture and implementation through testing, release management, production monitoring, and ongoing improvements • Establish mobile engineering best practices including automated testing, CI/CD, observability, secure development, and performance optimization • For Staff-level candidates, provide technical leadership, drive architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and define the long-term direction of SpruceID's mobile identity platform

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant experience building and shipping production mobile applications • Staff-level candidates should bring additional experience leading mobile architecture and major technical initiatives • Deep expertise in native iOS development (Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit) and/or native Android development (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Android SDK) • Strong understanding of mobile application architecture, platform security, application lifecycle management, concurrency, performance, and reliability • Experience with iOS Keychain, Secure Enclave, Android Keystore, hardware-backed key storage, or biometric authentication • Ability to design and deliver complex, user-facing mobile applications from initial architecture through production deployment • Experience integrating mobile applications with backend services, APIs, and authentication systems • Familiarity with secure software development practices, cryptographic concepts, and protecting sensitive user information • Strong engineering judgment and ability to navigate ambiguity • Experience collaborating across engineering, product, design, and external stakeholders • Excellent communication skills, including explaining technical tradeoffs and architectural decisions to technical and nontechnical audiences • Appreciation for open-source software, open standards, interoperability, and privacy-first product design • Based in the United States (remote) • Nice-to-have: experience with mobile driver's licenses, digital identity wallets, verifiable credential applications, or digital document solutions • Nice-to-have: familiarity with ISO/IEC 18013-5, ISO/IEC 18013-7, W3C Verifiable Credentials, OpenID4VCI, OpenID4VP, or related digital identity standards • Nice-to-have: experience with NFC, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), QR code, or proximity-based credential exchange protocols • Nice-to-have: understanding of public key cryptography, PKI, certificate validation, digital signatures, key management, and device attestation • Nice-to-have: experience integrating Apple Wallet, Google Wallet, or other platform-level digital credential capabilities • Nice-to-have: familiarity with Rust and integrating shared Rust libraries into native mobile applications through FFI or other cross-language bindings • Nice-to-have: experience with React Native, Flutter, Kotlin Multiplatform, or similar cross-platform technologies • Nice-to-have: knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, passkeys, WebAuthn, or federated identity systems • Nice-to-have: experience designing mobile SDKs or reusable libraries • Nice-to-have: experience with App Store and Google Play release management, mobile CI/CD, automated testing, crash reporting, and production observability • Nice-to-have: familiarity with WCAG, Section 508, VoiceOver, and TalkBack • Nice-to-have: prior experience in government technology, regulated industries, financial services, or other security-sensitive environments • Nice-to-have: contributions to open-source projects or participation in W3C, OpenID Foundation, IETF, or ISO communities

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement • Opportunity to work on identity technology with tangible, large-scale public impact • Meaningful ownership over architecture and product outcomes • Collaborative work across mobile platforms, applied cryptography, open standards, and government technology • Equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or veteran status

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