# Principal Forward Deployed Engineer

**Company:** [Spruce ID](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/spruce-id)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $200k – $225k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Rust, Go, Java, C#, DevOps, Kubernetes, Docker, React, Postgres, AWS, Architecture, Fullstack, Mobile Development, Cryptography, Digital Identity
**Posted:** 2025-09-02

> Leads technical strategy, architecture, and delivery of digital identity solutions for public sector clients. Builds full-stack systems in Rust/Go/Java/C#, mentors teams, and engages executives on multi-year projects requiring 8+ years experience.

## Job Description

## 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

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