SpruceID builds privacy-preserving, standards-based digital identity and credentialing solutions that give individuals control of their information while enabling governments and enterprises to deliver secure, interoperable services. We partner with public-sector organizations to modernize how identity is issued, verified, and used. 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.
Key Responsibilities
- 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 & Requirements
- 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 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.
About Spruce
Spruce, founded in 2020 by Wayne Chang and Gregory Rocco in New York, builds open-source identity and data control infrastructure for Web3. Its products, SpruceID and Kepler, provide decentralized identifiers, credential wallets and storage that let users control authentication and data sharing across apps without centralized providers, using DIDs and verifiable credentials. Headquartered in New York with a distributed team, Spruce collaborates with Ethereum Foundation, ENS and government pilots on privacy-preserving identity standards. The company emphasizes open standards, cryptographic verifiability and developer tooling over custodial identity. Backed by leading investors, Spruce advances self-sovereign identity research and interoperability. Its standards collaborations with ENS, Ethereum Foundation and government pilots advance verifiable credential adoption while preserving user control over selective disclosure. Expect a research and standards-driven culture that values privacy engineering, open collaboration and building durable, user-controlled identity rails for the ecosystem.