Forward Deployed Engineering Manager, SpruceID
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Digital trust infrastructure for government
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Digital trust infrastructure for government
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
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 in software engineering, with at least 3+ years in an engineering management or team leadership role
- Experience managing teams delivering production-grade systems in statically typed languages (Rust, Go, Java, C#)
- Proven track record leading cross-functional engineering projects in complex or regulated environments
- Strong technical background across the software development stack, including infrastructure, devops, backend, frontend, and mobile
- Demonstrated ability to build trust with both technical and executive stakeholders, ideally in the public sector
- Excellent communication, leadership, and organizational skills
- Based in the US and willing to travel as needed to support state government partners
Desirable
- Prior experience managing engineering teams working with public sector software projects
- Familiarity with government procurement, compliance, and governance considerations
- Knowledge of computer security, cryptography, and user data privacy practices
- Experience scaling engineering organizations or establishing new delivery functions
What the job involves
- As a Forward Deployed Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of engineers delivering solutions for state governments and other public sector partners
- You will be responsible for both people management and delivery execution, ensuring projects meet customer needs while supporting the growth and success of your team
- This role combines engineering leadership, customer engagement, and operational management
- You’ll work closely with delivery managers and executives, both within SpruceID and in government, to align technical execution with strategic outcomes
- Manage and grow a team of forward deployed engineers, providing coaching, mentorship, and career development
- Oversee multiple public sector deployments, from prototyping to development to operations and maintenance
- Partner with delivery managers to ensure projects are executed on time, within scope, and to high technical standards
- Build strong relationships with government partners, serving as a trusted technical leader and ensuring alignment with policy and operational goals
- Set and enforce engineering best practices across deployments, including security, privacy, and accessibility requirements
- 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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