Principal Solutions Engineer, APAC

Join a stellar team of leaders and experts in fintech, blockchain, cryptography, infrastructure, and security to build the next generation of core banking systems. We're hiring a Principal Solutions Engineer to help institutions, fintechs, and enterprises across APAC adopt Dfns with confidence and ease. This role is hands-on and client-facing: you'll design integrations for complex environments, guide customers through deployment, and provide end-to-end technical support across the region, from Singapore and Hong Kong to Tokyo, Sydney, Seoul, and beyond. You'll pair deep technical expertise with strong communication skills, serving as a trusted advisor to CTOs, architects, and engineering teams at banks, exchanges, custodians, and fintechs. Expect to design tailored solutions, deliver technical proposals, troubleshoot issues in real time, and collaborate closely with our backend, security, and product teams to ensure successful customer outcomes in a region that operates across many time zones, regulatory regimes, and languages. This role blends senior technical leadership with hands-on execution. You'll report to our VP of Solutions Engineering and work closely with Sales, Engineering, Security, and Product to support our growth across APAC. Responsibilities include acting as the senior technical face of Dfns in APAC, advising clients from first technical conversation through long-term production deployment; guiding financial institutions and fintechs through seamless onboarding and integration; building secure, scalable deployment pathways that bridge legacy and modern systems; providing hands-on support; collaborating with sales on technical proposals, demos, RFP responses; ensuring every integration meets security, privacy, and compliance standards; maintaining and improving technical documentation; gathering client feedback; representing Dfns at conferences, workshops; and developing playbooks and reusable integration patterns. Requirements include 10+ years in solutions engineering, demonstrated track record helping institutions deploy mission-critical systems; entrepreneurial mindset; strong in TypeScript (or similar) with API experience (REST); deep knowledge of cloud platforms; a solid understanding of enterprise security frameworks; excellent communication skills; and experience operating across multiple APAC markets and time zones. Process includes an intro call, personality and cognitive tests, a coding test, focus interviews, and reference calls.