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      <Title>Principal Forward Deployed Engineer</Title>
      <Description><![CDATA[<p>As a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, you will operate at the intersection of technical leadership and strategic delivery. You will lead high-impact engagements with state governments and public sector partners, guiding both the architecture and the adoption strategy for digital identity solutions.</p>
<p>This role is hands-on and customer-facing. You’ll write and review code, architect systems, and set engineering best practices, while also shaping roadmaps, influencing standards, and representing SpruceID in strategic conversations.</p>
<p>Responsibilities:</p>
<ul>
<li>Define technical strategy and architecture for public sector deployments, ensuring both technical excellence and alignment with policy and operational needs</li>
<li>Act as the senior technical representative in executive-level customer meetings, bridging the gap between technical details and business or policy outcomes</li>
<li>Lead multiple end-to-end multi-year projects from rapid prototyping to development to operations and maintenance</li>
<li>Architect and build backend systems, full-stack web applications, and mobile solutions with a focus on security, privacy, and accessibility</li>
<li>Translate government requirements into robust, standards-based solutions that integrate with both modern and legacy systems</li>
<li>Mentor and guide forward deployed engineers and delivery teams, setting standards for high-quality engineering and customer collaboration</li>
<li>Identify and drive efficiencies across projects, ensuring knowledge and tooling are shared across teams</li>
<li>Collaborate with platform teams to feed customer insights into SpruceID’s roadmap and contributions to global identity standards</li>
</ul>
<p>Qualifications:</p>
<ul>
<li>8+ years of experience designing, building, and delivering production-grade software in statically typed languages (Rust, Go, Java, C#)</li>
<li>Proven ability to lead large-scale engineering efforts that span multiple teams and organizations</li>
<li>Strong expertise across the software development stack, including infrastructure, devops, architecture, frontend, and mobile</li>
<li>Demonstrated experience working with public sector or highly regulated industries, including direct customer engagement at both executive and technical levels</li>
<li>Excellent leadership, communication, and consulting skills with the ability to influence strategy as well as execution</li>
<li>Based in the US and willing to travel as needed to support state government partners</li>
</ul>
<p>Bonus Qualifications:</p>
<ul>
<li>Experience leading digital transformation or modernization efforts in the public sector</li>
<li>Familiarity with procurement, compliance, and governance considerations in state government projects</li>
<li>Deep knowledge of digital identity, computer security, cryptography, and user data privacy practices</li>
<li>Experience as a Field CTO or similar</li>
</ul>
<p>Additional Information</p>
<p>This job is fully remote within the US.</p>
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      <Jobtype>full-time</Jobtype>
      <Experiencelevel>senior</Experiencelevel>
      <Workarrangement>remote</Workarrangement>
      <Salaryrange></Salaryrange>
      <Skills>Rust, Go, Java, C#, Infrastructure, DevOps, Architecture, Frontend, Mobile, Security, Privacy, Accessibility</Skills>
      <Category>Engineering</Category>
      <Industry>Technology</Industry>
      <Employername>SpruceID</Employername>
      <Employerlogo>https://logos.yubhub.co/spruceid.com.png</Employerlogo>
      <Employerdescription>SpruceID builds privacy-preserving, standards-based digital identity and credentialing solutions.</Employerdescription>
      <Employerwebsite>https://spruceid.com/</Employerwebsite>
      <Compensationcurrency></Compensationcurrency>
      <Compensationmin></Compensationmin>
      <Compensationmax></Compensationmax>
      <Applyto>https://jobs.lever.co/sprucesystems/9f863820-0da3-4b1f-aa4c-64ee85148fed?utm_source=yubhub.co&amp;utm_medium=jobs_feed&amp;utm_campaign=apply</Applyto>
      <Location>US</Location>
      <Country></Country>
      <Postedate>2026-04-17</Postedate>
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