Principal Forward Deployed Engineer

The role

You will lead high-impact engagements with state governments and public sector partners. You will guide architecture and adoption strategy for digital identity solutions while writing and reviewing code.

What you will do

• Define technical strategy and architecture for public sector deployments
• Act as the senior technical representative in executive-level customer meetings
• Lead multiple end-to-end multi-year projects from prototyping to maintenance
• Architect and build backend systems, full-stack web applications, and mobile solutions
• Translate government requirements into standards-based solutions
• Mentor and guide forward deployed engineers and delivery teams
• Identify and drive efficiencies across projects
• Collaborate with platform teams to feed customer insights into the roadmap

Required 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
• Based in the US
• Willing to travel as needed to support state government partners

Nice to have

• 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

About the company

SpruceID builds privacy-preserving, standards-based digital identity and credentialing solutions. They partner with public-sector organizations to modernize how identity is issued, verified, and used.