Senior/Staff Forward-Deployed Engineer – Mobile

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Create, develop, and sustain production-quality mobile applications focused on digital identity and credentialing, especially for government partners.

• Spearhead the development of secure digital identity wallets for the reception, storage, management, and presentation of digital credentials.

• Design and uphold native iOS and/or Android applications with a focus on platform capabilities, performance, reliability, security, and user experience.

• Architect and execute features that involve secure credential storage, device authentication, biometric authentication, cryptographic functions, and privacy-preserving data exchanges.

• Integrate new identity standards into mobile applications and SDKs.

• Collaborate with engineers, designers, product teams, and government partners to convert complex requirements into user-friendly mobile experiences.

• Develop and maintain integrations with backend APIs, identity issuance systems, credential verification services, and platform security features.

• Contribute to shared libraries based on Rust and cross-platform components.

• Oversee the mobile engineering lifecycle from architecture and implementation to testing, release management, production monitoring, and continuous improvements.

• Establish best practices in mobile engineering, including automated testing, CI/CD, observability, secure development, and performance enhancement.

• For candidates at the Staff level, provide technical leadership, influence architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and define the strategic direction of SpruceID's mobile identity platform.

⛳️ Requirements

• At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience, with extensive experience in building and launching production mobile applications.

• Candidates at the Staff level should possess additional experience in leading mobile architecture and significant technical initiatives.

• Profound expertise in native iOS development (Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit) and/or native Android development (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Android SDK).

• Solid understanding of mobile application architecture, platform security, application lifecycle management, concurrency, performance, and reliability.

• Experience with iOS Keychain, Secure Enclave, Android Keystore, hardware-backed key storage, or biometric authentication.

• Capability to design and deliver intricate, user-facing mobile applications from initial architecture to production deployment.

• Proficiency in integrating mobile applications with backend services, APIs, and authentication systems.

• Familiarity with secure software development practices, cryptographic principles, and safeguarding sensitive user information.

• Strong engineering judgment and ability to manage ambiguity.

• Experience in collaborating across engineering, product, design, and external stakeholders.

• Exceptional communication skills, including the ability to explain technical trade-offs and architectural decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Appreciation for open-source software, open standards, interoperability, and privacy-first product design.

• Must be based in the United States (remote).

• Nice-to-have: experience with mobile driver’s licenses, digital identity wallets, verifiable credential applications, or digital document solutions.

• Nice-to-have: familiarity with ISO/IEC 18013-5, ISO/IEC 18013-7, W3C Verifiable Credentials, OpenID4VCI, OpenID4VP, or related digital identity standards.

• Nice-to-have: experience with NFC, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), QR code, or proximity-based credential exchange protocols.

• Nice-to-have: understanding of public key cryptography, PKI, certificate validation, digital signatures, key management, and device attestation.

• Nice-to-have: experience integrating Apple Wallet, Google Wallet, or other platform-level digital credential capabilities.

• Nice-to-have: familiarity with Rust and integrating shared Rust libraries into native mobile applications through FFI or other cross-language bindings.

• Nice-to-have: experience with React Native, Flutter, Kotlin Multiplatform, or similar cross-platform technologies.

• Nice-to-have: knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, passkeys, WebAuthn, or federated identity systems.

• Nice-to-have: experience designing mobile SDKs or reusable libraries.

• Nice-to-have: experience with App Store and Google Play release management, mobile CI/CD, automated testing, crash reporting, and production observability.

• Nice-to-have: familiarity with WCAG, Section 508, VoiceOver, and TalkBack.

• Nice-to-have: prior experience in government technology, regulated industries, financial services, or other security-sensitive environments.

• Nice-to-have: contributions to open-source projects or participation in W3C, OpenID Foundation, IETF, or ISO communities.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement.

• Opportunity to engage in identity technology with significant, large-scale public impact.

• Meaningful ownership of architecture and product outcomes.

• Collaborative work across mobile platforms, applied cryptography, open standards, and government technology.

• Equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or veteran status.