Server Side Software Engineer

Bayside Solutions
Cupertino, United States of America
13 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Compensation
$ 146K

Job location

Remote
Cupertino, United States of America

Tech stack

API
Cloud Computing
Databases
Continuous Integration
Software Debugging
Linux
Distributed Systems
Open Source Technology
Performance Tuning
Software Architecture
Data Logging
Backend
Event Driven Architecture

Job description

We are looking for a highly experienced Swift backend engineer to help build and evolve modern server-side Swift infrastructure and ecosystem tooling. This is a deeply technical engineering role focused on backend systems, concurrency, observability, database drivers, and platform-level development., * Build and maintain high-performance server-side Swift services and infrastructure

  • Design and improve Swift backend ecosystem packages and tooling
  • Modernize database drivers and backend integrations
  • Develop concurrency-heavy backend systems using modern Swift concurrency patterns
  • Improve observability, diagnostics, logging, tracing, and monitoring capabilities
  • Work on scalable distributed backend systems and platform services
  • Contribute to backend architecture, reliability, and performance optimization
  • Collaborate with globally distributed engineering teams across multiple time zones
  • Operate independently on large technical initiatives with minimal oversight

Requirements

  • Strong professional experience with backend/server-side Swift development
  • Deep expertise in Swift concurrency: async/await, actors, task groups, structured concurrency, Sendable, and actor isolation
  • Strong backend engineering and distributed systems fundamentals
  • Experience building scalable, production-grade backend services
  • Experience debugging concurrency, threading, and performance issues
  • Strong understanding of networking, asynchronous processing, and backend architecture
  • Experience designing maintainable APIs, packages, and infrastructure components
  • Comfortable working independently in remote/distributed environments
  • Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
  • Ability to take ownership of work with minimal handholding

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with SwiftNIO, Vapor, AsyncHTTPClient, or related server-side Swift frameworks
  • Experience building database drivers or infrastructure libraries
  • Observability experience: OpenTelemetry, metrics, tracing, structured logging, PrometheGrafana
  • Experience with distributed systems and event-driven architectures
  • Experience contributing to open-source projects
  • Experience working on platform engineering or infrastructure engineering teams
  • Linux backend deployment experience
  • CI/CD and cloud infrastructure experience
  • Experience optimizing backend system performance and reliability
  • Prior experience working within the Swift open-source ecosystem is a strong plus

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