Server Side Swift Developer – Level Shoes – Chalhoub Group

Level Shoes, Chalhoub Group’s luxury footwear retail platform, is hiring a Server Side Swift Developer to build and maintain backend services supporting its e-commerce and digital retail experience. Server-side Swift is a less common stack choice than the usual Node or Java backend, which means this role suits developers who enjoy working close to the platform’s full technology stack rather than purely on one layer.

Expect the role to involve designing and maintaining APIs, working on performance and reliability for a retail platform that needs to handle real transaction volume and peak shopping traffic without degrading, and collaborating closely with mobile and frontend teams given Swift’s shared heritage across Apple’s ecosystem. Level Shoes operates in the luxury retail space, which means the backend has to support a premium, frictionless customer experience, slow pages or failed checkouts are far more costly to brand perception here than in a budget retail context.

Chalhoub Group has built deep expertise across luxury retail technology over decades in the region, giving this role real infrastructure and institutional knowledge to build on rather than starting from scratch. A developer who enjoys both backend engineering rigor and the performance demands of a premium e-commerce platform will find a strong technical challenge here.

Level Shoes operates in luxury e-commerce, a segment where customer expectations around speed, reliability, and a seamless checkout experience are especially unforgiving, a single slow page load or failed transaction can cost a sale that would otherwise be worth significantly more than an average retail transaction. A Server Side Swift Developer who builds robust, well-performing backend services directly protects conversion rates and the overall shopping experience that luxury customers expect from a premium platform. Reliable backend architecture also supports Level Shoes' ability to handle peak traffic moments, major sales events or new collection launches, without the kind of outages or slowdowns that damage both immediate revenue and longer-term brand trust. Because Chalhoub Group operates Level Shoes as part of a broader luxury retail portfolio, strong technical execution here also reflects on the group's broader digital retail credibility with luxury brand partners who need confidence that their products are represented well online. Beyond customer-facing performance, clean, well-architected backend code reduces the ongoing maintenance burden and technical debt that would otherwise slow future feature development, letting the platform evolve faster to match changing luxury retail trends and customer expectations.

Server-side Swift is a genuinely specialized skill set, far less common than mainstream backend stacks, which means developers who build real depth here are differentiated in a competitive tech job market rather than competing with a huge pool of generalist backend engineers. Working on Level Shoes specifically provides direct experience with high-traffic, transaction-critical e-commerce systems in the luxury retail space, a combination of technical rigor and premium customer experience standards that reads very well on a CV. Chalhoub Group's scale and decades of luxury retail expertise in the region also means strong engineers have a credible path to move into broader platform architecture, technical leadership, or engineering management roles within the group's wider digital portfolio over time. The cross-functional collaboration this role demands, working closely with mobile and frontend teams, builds well-rounded engineering communication skills that matter increasingly as developers progress into senior or lead roles. Luxury e-commerce is also a growing segment of UAE retail, giving this specialization durable relevance in a regional tech market that continues to expand. For a backend developer who wants to combine a less commoditized technical skill set with genuinely high-stakes, high-visibility production systems, this role offers both differentiation and a strong foundation for senior engineering career growth.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• Proven experience building and maintaining server-side applications in Swift (Vapor or similar frameworks)
• Strong understanding of API design, performance optimization, and reliability engineering
• Experience working within an e-commerce or high-traffic retail platform environment
• Comfortable collaborating closely with mobile and frontend engineering teams
• Familiarity with database design and query optimization for transactional systems
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills under production performance pressure