Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

The role

You will design, build, and deploy production-grade identity and credentialing solutions for state governments and enterprise partners. You will write production code, make architectural decisions, and solve complex integration problems.

What you will do

• Lead the architecture, development, integration, and deployment of identity and credentialing solutions.
• Develop reliable backend services, APIs, and full-stack web and mobile applications.
• Partner with government stakeholders and technical teams to translate requirements into solutions.
• Connect technology with existing customer systems, infrastructure, and workflows.
• Build and maintain software across backend services, web applications, and Rust codebases.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, and customer delivery teams.
• Act as a trusted advisor to partners on architecture, security, and open standards.
• Own deployment readiness, troubleshoot issues, and improve operational reliability.
• Bring insights from customer deployments back to engineering and product teams.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong backend engineering experience in one or more statically typed languages such as Rust, Go, Java, or C#.
• Experience building modern web applications, with an understanding of frontend frameworks, APIs, accessibility, and application security.
• Demonstrated ability to own complex technical projects from architecture through production deployment.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, along with modern DevOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure practices.
• Experience designing integrations and working with APIs, distributed systems, and existing enterprise infrastructure.
• Strong communication skills.
• Comfort working directly with customers, navigating ambiguity, and balancing technical tradeoffs.
• A pragmatic, ownership-driven mindset.
• Based in the United States and willing to travel occasionally.

Nice to have

• Experience with digital identity technologies, verifiable credentials, digital wallets, decentralized identifiers, or related open standards.
• Familiarity with cryptography, authentication, authorization, privacy engineering, or secure credential exchange.
• Experience with Rust or an interest in working extensively with Rust-based systems.
• Previous experience delivering software for state or federal government agencies.
• Experience navigating public-sector security, compliance, accessibility, or procurement requirements.
• Background in forward deployed engineering, technical consulting, solutions architecture, or customer-facing software delivery.

About the company

SpruceID develops privacy-preserving, standards-based identity and credentialing solutions. They work with public-sector partners to modernize critical identity infrastructure.