Senior Mobile Forward-Deployed Engineer — Remote

Spruce; United States; A distancia; USD 120.000 - 180.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

SpruceID is building privacy-preserving digital identity infrastructure and secure mobile wallets for government partners. This role emphasizes native iOS and Android development, cryptography, and open-standards integration, with a focus on security, performance, and user experience.

The Senior or Staff Forward-Deployed Engineer collaborates with government partners, engineers, designers, and product teams to deliver scalable identity solutions from architecture to production, with

Formación

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production mobile applications.
• Native iOS development using Swift/SwiftUI and/or native Android development using Kotlin/Jetpack Compose.
• Strong understanding of mobile architecture, security, lifecycle management, concurrency, performance and reliability.
• Experience with mobile security capabilities (Keychain, Secure Enclave, Android Keystore, biometric auth).
• Experience delivering complex, user-facing mobile applications from architecture to production deployment.
• Experience integrating mobile apps with backend services, APIs, and authentication systems.
• Familiarity with secure software development, cryptography, and protecting user data.
• Strong engineering judgment, collaboration across engines, product, design and partners.
• Appreciation for open standards, interoperability and privacy-first design.
• Based in the United States (remote) and able to work with government partners.

Responsabilidades

• Design, build, and maintain production-grade mobile applications for digital identity and credentialing, with a focus on government partner initiatives.
• Lead the development of secure digital identity wallets enabling users to receive, store, and present digital credentials.
• Develop native iOS and/or Android apps with emphasis on performance, security, and UX.
• Architect and implement mobile features for secure credential storage, device and biometric authentication, cryptographic operations, and privacy-preserving data exchange.
• Integrate emerging identity standards into mobile apps and SDKs.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, product teams, and government partners to translate requirements into accessible mobile experiences.
• Build mobile integrations with backend APIs, identity issuance systems, credential verification services, and platform security features.
• Contribute to Rust-based shared libraries and cross-platform components supporting mobile, backend, and browser environments.
• Own the mobile engineering lifecycle from architecture through testing, release, and production monitoring.
• Help establish mobile engineering best practices including automated testing, CI/CD, observability, secure development, and performance optimization.
• For Staff-level candidates, provide technical leadership across projects, drive architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and define long-term direction of SpruceID's mobile identity platform.

Conocimientos

Mobile development

iOS development

Android development

Security architecture

Cryptography concepts

Open standards

Cross-functional collaboration

Software design

API integration

Performance optimization

Herramientas

Swift

SwiftUI

UIKit

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

Android SDK

Rust

FFI

CI/CD tooling

Descripción del empleo

SpruceID is building privacy-preserving digital identity infrastructure and secure mobile wallets for government partners. This role emphasizes native iOS and Android development, cryptography, and open-standards integration, with a focus on security, performance, and user experience.

The Senior or Staff Forward-Deployed Engineer collaborates with government partners, engineers, designers, and product teams to deliver scalable identity solutions from architecture to production, with