Manufacturing Engineer, Electrical/Electronics – Entry Level
Boeing
Principal Forward Deployed Engineer
Spruce Systems, Inc.
full-time
Posted on:
Location: California, Colorado, Utah • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
Tech Stack
GoJavaOpen SourceRust
About the role
- At SpruceID: reimagining trusted interactions; building open source software for digital identity and government use
- Principal Forward Deployed Engineer operating at the intersection of technical leadership and strategic delivery
- This job is fully remote within the US, but we prefer candidates in states where we do business including CA, UT, and CO
- 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
Requirements
- 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
