Principal Forward Deployed Engineer
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What You'll Do
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
Bonus Qualifications
- Experience leading digital transformation or modernization efforts in the public sector
- Familiarity with procurement, compliance, and governance considerations in state government projects
- Deep knowledge of digital identity, computer security, cryptography, and user data privacy practices
- Experience as a Field CTO or similar
- At SpruceID, we value diversity of perspectives and backgrounds. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or veteran status.
About SpruceID
Developing privacy-preserving digital identity and credentialing software solutions.
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