Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Bayside Solutions is seeking a highly experienced Swift backend engineer to help build and evolve modern server-side Swift infrastructure and ecosystem tooling. This deeply technical engineering role is focused on backend systems, concurrency, observability, database drivers, and platform-level development.
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
Skills
- 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
- 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 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
Benefits
- W2 Contract
- Remote Role
- Candidates for this position must qualify as a W2 candidate
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