Server Side Swift Developer

Level Shoes, part of Chalhoub Group, is seeking a Server-Side Swift Developer to join their backend team in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. This is a hands-on senior role with production ownership, focusing on building and operating Vapor-based microservices for their e-commerce platforms. We are looking for candidates ready to design, build, review, and ship backend services, ensuring their performance and reliability in production environments. Apply now to shape the future of luxury retail technology!

Looking for a Server Side Swift Developer at Level Shoes in Dubai, United Arab Emirates? This role focuses on the day-to-day work of a Server Side Swift Developer.

INSPIRE | EXHILARATE | DELIGHT For over seven decades, Chalhoub Group has been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East. In its pursuit to excel as a hybrid luxury retailer, the Group has curated a portfolio of over 10 owned brands and strengthened its distr

Company Overview

For over seven decades, Chalhoub Group has been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East. As a hybrid luxury retailer, the Group manages a portfolio of over 10 owned brands and distributes over 400 international names across fashion, beauty, jewellery, watches, eyewear, and art de vivre. Chalhoub Group delivers seamless omnichannel experiences through over 950 stores, online platforms, and mobile apps, driven by innovation and a people-at-heart culture. Sustainability is central to their strategy, with a commitment to Net Zero by 2040.

Quick Details

• Salary Range: Not Applicable
• Job Type: Full-time
• Experience: 6+ years of professional software development experience, including at least 3 years building production backend services in server-side Swift (Vapor).
• Qualifications: Bachelors Degree

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain scalable backend services in Swift using Vapor.
• Own services end to end: design, implementation, code review, deployment and production health.
• Build and maintain the RESTful APIs behind customer-facing commerce flows.
• Design and maintain integrations with third-party systems.
• Build concurrency-safe, idempotent processing for operations.
• Model data and optimise queries in MongoDB; implement caching and session strategies in Redis.
• Implement and tune Elastic Search-backed search and listing functionality.
• Ship behaviour changes behind feature flags with staged, measured rollouts.
• Investigate production issues from logs and metrics, and validate fixes with evidence.
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows on Kubernetes.
• Explore AI-driven capabilities such as vector search for personalisation.
• Review teammates' changes; all code is reviewed before merge regardless of seniority.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional software development experience, including at least 3 years building production backend services in server-side Swift (Vapor).
• Strong command of Swift concurrency, protocol-oriented design and Codable.
• Demonstrable experience with concurrency, race conditions and idempotency in services running as multiple instances.
• Strong understanding of RESTful API design, authentication and token lifecycle.
• MongoDB in production, including data modelling, indexing and query performance.
• Redis for caching and session state.
• ElasticSearch for search and listing.
• Experience integrating payment gateways and third-party APIs, including webhook-driven flows.
• Kubernetes: deploying and operating containerised services, and reading logs and metrics.
• Git, CI/CD pipelines and automated testing; Swift Package Manager for dependency management.
• Strong grasp of performance, scalability and security best practices.
• E-commerce, payments or another domain where defects have direct financial consequences.
• Integration experience with Magento or a comparable commerce platform, or with an order management system.
• Multi-tenant or multi-region systems where data isolation is a correctness requirement.
• Localisation beyond string swapping, including right-to-left languages.
• AWS or another cloud platform for hosting backend services.
• Logging and monitoring tools such as New Relic.
• Feature-flagging and progressive rollout platforms.
• Jenkins and Gerrit.
• Agile development methodologies.

Benefits

• Competitive benefits package including health care.
• Child education contribution.
• Remote and flexible working policies.
• Exclusive employee discounts.
• Opportunities for professional development and career growth.
• Exposure to different assignments within your role or through internal mobility.