Principal Forward Deployed Engineer

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🕒 July 28

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $200k - $225k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

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SpruceID

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11 - 50 employees

🏛️ Government

🔐 Security

☁️ SaaS

💰 $34M Series A - Spruce on 2022-04

Government • Security • SaaS

SpruceID is a digital identity infrastructure and services company that helps government agencies securely modernize services. It provides identity wallets and state-issued ID support, an identity gateway/SSO, credential platforms, document intake and form modernization, legacy system integration, and trust & risk tools such as privacy-preserving verification and fraud prevention. SpruceID’s offerings focus on building digital trust across government programs to reduce fraud, streamline workflows, and enable secure, reusable identity and credentialing for residents; the company materials note it is trusted by millions of users in U. S. government programs.

📋 Description

• 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

🎯 Requirements

• 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• Offers Equity