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# Swift backend engineer

- **Company:** Bayside Solutions
- **Location:** Cupertino, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Salary:** $124,800.0 - $145,600.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Cloud Computing, Databases, Continuous Integration, Software Debugging, Linux, Distributed Systems, Open Source Technology, Performance Tuning, Software Architecture, Data Logging, Backend, Event Driven Architecture
- **Published:** July 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/f5ed9eb5-1fe8-4d6e-b354-bccd532fbd7a

## About the Role

* 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

## 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


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