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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Spruce is building a future where users control their identity and data across all digital interactions. We believe in endowing individuals with control over privacy through open-source software that makes user-controlled interactions possible.

Spruce

Employee count: 11-50

United States only
At SpruceID, we are reimagining trusted interactions by creating the world’s best software for digital identity. We are a team of engineers building world-class open source software that implement open global standards.
As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, you will sit at the intersection of engineering and customer delivery. You will work directly with state governments and other public sector partners to design, build, and deploy solutions that solve real-world identity challenges. This role combines hands-on software development with consulting and customer success. You will represent SpruceID on the ground with our partners, ensuring our technology is deployed effectively and with lasting impact.
This job is fully remote within the US, but we prefer candidates in states where we do business including CA, UT, and CO.

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 computer security, correct use of cryptography, and user data privacy
  • Prior experience working with public sector software projects
  • Experience with production blockchain projects
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.

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Senior

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About Spruce

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We believe users should be able to control their identity and data across all digital interactions.

Founders Wayne Chang and Gregory Rocco met while working at ConsenSys in Brooklyn, New York. They realized that the best way to ensure a user-centric future was to build the core infrastructure that lets users control their data across the web. Enter Spruce in early 2020. As implementers and architects of emerging global identity standards such as W3C Verifiable Credentials, Sign-In with Ethereum, and more, we recognize the importance of aligning the ecosystem and providing core open-source building blocks to make this all possible.

We Believe in

  • Enabling a world where users can control their data across the web.

  • Giving people security and privacy through private-by-default architectures.

  • Supporting builders with open-source software for user-controlled interactions.

Our Investors

We're proud to be backed by a world-class team of investors, including top founders, leaders, and institutions in the industry.

Grow With Us

We're a team of user control maximalists, and while we’re not zealots of any particular technology, we want to ensure that technology is never the limiting factor for a user-controlled future. We believe that the world is evolving toward one based on cryptography, networks, and digital economies that must all put user at the center.

If this resonates with you, check out our open roles.

Employee benefits

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Healthcare benefits

Quality group health insurance coverage.

Company retreats

We have team gatherings around the world.

Flexible working hours

We accommodate all kinds of lifestyles and life stages. Come work on your terms.

Unlimited PTO

Take as much time off as you want as long as it doesn't interfere with your ability to do your work.

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Spruce

Company size

11-50 employees

Founded in

2020

Chief executive officer

Wayne Chang

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