Server-Side Swift Developer

About the role

Level Shoes, part of Chalhoub Group's innovation hub, is hiring a Server-Side Swift Developer for its backend team. The team builds and runs Vapor-based microservices powering iOS, Android and web storefronts across six GCC markets in English and Arabic. This is a hands-on senior role with real production ownership.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build, review and ship backend services in Swift using Vapor, owning them end to end including deployment and production health.
• Build and maintain RESTful APIs for accounts and authentication, catalogue, cart, checkout, payments and orders, scoped to each market and locale.
• Maintain integrations with third-party systems (commerce platform, order management, search, CMS, payment/BNPL gateways), including webhook handling and safe degradation when they are slow or unavailable.
• Build concurrency-safe, idempotent processing for operations that run across multiple service replicas.
• Model data and optimise queries in MongoDB, implement caching and session strategies in Redis, and tune Elastic Search-backed search and listing.
• Ship feature changes behind feature flags with staged, measured rollouts, and investigate production issues from logs and metrics.
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows on Kubernetes, and explore AI-driven capabilities such as vector search.
• Review teammates' changes; all code is reviewed before merge.

Required profile

• 6+ years of professional software development, including at least 3 years building production backend services in server-side Swift (Vapor); client-side Swift alone is not enough.
• Prior iOS/macOS or backend experience in other languages is welcome for the remaining years.
• Demonstrable experience with concurrency, race conditions and idempotency in multi-instance services, with a specific production bug found and fixed.
• Experience integrating payment gateways and third-party APIs, including webhook-driven flows.
• Integration with Magento or a comparable commerce platform, or with an order management system.
• Multi-tenant or multi-region systems where data isolation matters, and localisation beyond string swapping, including right-to-left languages.

Required skills

• Swift concurrency, protocol-oriented design and Codable.
• RESTful API design, authentication and token lifecycle.
• MongoDB, Redis, ElasticSearch, Kubernetes, Git, CI/CD, Swift Package Manager.
• Logging and monitoring tools such as New Relic, feature-flagging platforms, Jenkins and Gerrit.
• Performance, scalability and security best practices.

What we offer

• Learning and development opportunities and internal mobility.
• Health care, child education contribution, remote and flexible working policies and employee discounts.