Swift backend engineer

Bayside Solutions

Cupertino, CA, United States

about 1 month ago

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Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Compensation

$124,800.0 - $145,600.0

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

www.dice.com

Tech stack

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Cloud Computing Databases Continuous Integration Software Debugging Linux Distributed Systems Open Source Technology Performance Tuning Software Architecture Data Logging Backend

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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, and 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