Spruce Systems, Inc.

Engineer

• 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

Principal Forward Deployed Engineer

• Design, build, and maintain mobile applications for iOS and Android using frameworks such as Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, or React Native
• Ensure mobile apps meet government requirements for security, privacy, accessibility, and reliability
• Collaborate with backend engineers to integrate APIs and services into robust mobile experiences
• Translate customer and policy requirements into mobile-first product designs and implementations
• Work closely with UX designers to deliver intuitive and inclusive user experiences for public sector audiences
• Partner with customer delivery leads to ensure successful deployments, testing, and operations in production environments
• Contribute to standards adoption by ensuring mobile implementations align with global digital identity protocols
• Provide technical guidance to public sector partners on mobile app deployment, security, and operations

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Mobile

• 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

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Chief of Staff

• Deal & Pipeline Support - Government sales cycles are long, complex, and unforgiving. You'll own CRM hygiene, prep the CEO for meetings (pulling background on agencies, legislators, and procurement officers), draft follow-up emails, and track where every opportunity stands. Nothing falls through the cracks between a conference handshake and an RFP response.
• AI-Driven Process Improvement - You'll have a standing mandate to find places where AI can create velocity. That might mean building a monitoring pipeline that auto-summarizes new state-level identity legislation, setting up AI-assisted meeting prep workflows that pull relevant context before every government call, or creating drafting tools that let the CEO review and ship content in a fraction of the time.
• Strategic Research & Synthesis - In govtech and digital identity, the landscape shifts fast: new NIST frameworks, state-level legislative changes, competitor moves, procurement shifts. You'll proactively monitor these developments, synthesize them into digestible briefs, and flag what matters to the CEO.
• Communications & Content Leverage - The CEO frequently represents the company as a thought leader and public face, speaking at conferences, writing policy memos, and briefing legislators. You'll draft, edit, and polish these outputs. Turn a rough voice memo into a polished one-pager. Prep speaker notes. Ghost-draft blog content that positions the company in the market.
• Cross-Functional Gap-Filling - Running a hiring process one week, managing event prep the next, jumping into a partner integration workstream after that. The willingness and ability to move fluidly across these contexts will be critical to success in this role.
• Travel - Based in the U.S. (NY metro preferred) and willing to travel as needed to meet with government clients and attend company events