Server Side Software Engineer (Swift)
Server Side Software Engineer (Swift)
W2 Contract
Pay Rate: $60 - $70 per hour
Location: Cupertino, CA - Remote Role
Job Summary:
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.
- Duties and Responsibilities:
- 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 and Qualifications:
- 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, Prometheus/Grafana
- 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
Desired Skills and Experience
Swift, Server-Side Swift, Backend Engineering, Distributed Systems, Swift Concurrency, async/await, Actors, Task Groups, Structured Concurrency, Sendable, Actor Isolation, SwiftNIO, Vapor, AsyncHTTPClient, Backend Architecture, API Design, Infrastructure Engineering, Platform Engineering, Database Drivers, Backend Integrations, Networking, Asynchronous Processing, Observability, Diagnostics, Logging, Tracing, Monitoring, OpenTelemetry, Metrics, Structured Logging, Prometheus, Grafana, Event-Driven Architecture, Performance Optimization, Reliability Engineering, Debugging, Threading, Linux Deployment, CI/CD, Cloud Infrastructure, Open Source, Swift Open Source Ecosystem, Remote Collaboration, Independent Ownership
Bayside Solutions, Inc. is not able to sponsor any candidates at this time. Additionally, candidates for this position must qualify as a W2 candidate.
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