Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, SpruceID
$200-225k
+ Offers Equity
Digital trust infrastructure for government
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Digital trust infrastructure for government
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-225k
+ Offers Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build a future where users control their data across the web.
Role
Who you are
- 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
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- 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.
- You’ll work closely with engineering teams, delivery managers, and executives, both within SpruceID and on the customer side, to ensure that deployments not only succeed technically, but also achieve lasting policy and operational outcomes
- 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
- 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
Our take
Keeping control over your identity online is becoming increasingly difficult. SpruceID is setting out to combat this by leveraging the power of blockchain. The company's main target is allowing users to sign in online using their Ethereum account instead of a traditional intermediary. This offers increased privacy and ownership for users.
SpruceID is one of a raft of new companies looking to leverage the power of blockchain to improve consumers' privacy and autonomy online, which means there is no shortage of competitors in the space. That said, its funding success, integration capabilities and backing have given it an important edge, and these factors stand strong as promises of its future potential.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2022
$34m
SERIES A
Nov 2021
$7.5m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $41.7m
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Wayne Builds
(Founder & CEO)Prior to founding Spruce in 2020, Wayne was a Proprietor at WYC Technology for over 4 years. He also spent over 2 years at ConsenSys as the Head of Token Engineering, Head of Product (Web 2.5) and Director of Product Management (Identity). Alongside this, he founded Alpine, a business unit within ConsenSys, where he served as the Head of Product.
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