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Spruce IDSpruce IDUnited States

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Leads design, development, and deployment of privacy-preserving identity solutions for state governments. Ships backend software in Rust/Go/Java, builds full-stack apps, manages cloud infrastructure, and advises customers directly (5+ years experience required).

150k – 175k/yr
Remote5+ YOESolutions Architecture

About the role

What You'll Do

  • Lead the design and development of products and solutions for state governments and enterprise customers
  • Work side-by-side with customer delivery leads, engineers, and UX designers to ensure successful projects delivery and deployments
  • Translate customer requirements into technical architectures and working implementations
  • Act as a trusted technical advisor to public sector partners, guiding them through standards adoption and best practices
  • Build backend software and full-stack web and mobile applications that meet public sector security, privacy, and accessibility standards
  • Contribute to new and existing Rust codebases that run on backend services, mobile devices, and in the browser
  • Manage customer deployments and support operations

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience shipping backend software in statically typed languages, such as C#, Rust, Go, or Java
  • Experience shipping modern web frontends that meet accessibility and security standards
  • Proven ability to lead cross-functional engineering efforts and deliver production systems
  • Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and devops practices
  • Excellent communication skills and experience working directly with customers, ideally in a consulting or delivery role
  • Based in the US and excited to engage directly with state government partners

Bonus Qualifications

  • Strong foundation in digital identity, cryptography, data privacy, or blockchain
  • Prior experience working with public sector software projects

Skills

RustGoJavaC#AWSGCPAzureDevOpsFull-StackWeb Development
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