- Employment
- Full-Time
- Seniority
- Senior
- Department
- IT & Technology Systems
- Posted
- Nov 9, 2026
About Chalhoub Group
Founded in 1955 by Michel and Widad Chalhoub, Chalhoub Group has grown into a leading partner for luxury across the Middle East. Headquartered in Dubai, the family-owned group brings together international maisons and homegrown concepts across fashion, beauty and lifestyle, combining regional expertise with retail and distribution capabilities. As an employer, it offers career opportunities spanning client experience, brand management, merchandising, logistics and digital innovation. Its multicultural environment connects employees with the evolving expectations of luxury consumers, while its emphasis on learning, entrepreneurship and sustainability provides a distinctive setting for professionals seeking to shape the region’s luxury landscape.
Level Shoes is seeking a senior Server-Side Swift Developer to build and operate Vapor-based microservices powering iOS, Android and web storefronts across six GCC markets in English and Arabic. The role owns backend services through design, delivery and production health, including performance under sale-day load and integrations with external systems.
Role & Responsibilities
- Design, develop and maintain scalable backend services in Swift using Vapor.
- Own services end to end, including design, implementation, code review, deployment and production health.
- Build and maintain RESTful APIs for customer-facing commerce flows, including accounts and authentication, catalogue, cart, checkout, payments and orders.
- Ensure correctness across multiple stores and languages, with every request scoped to a market and locale.
- Design and maintain integrations with third-party systems, including commerce platforms, order management, search, CMS, and payment and BNPL gateways; handle webhooks and ensure graceful degradation when integrated systems are slow or unavailable.
- Build concurrency-safe, idempotent processing for operations running across multiple service replicas that must never be applied twice.
- 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 using 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.
Qualifications
- At least 6 years of professional software development experience, including at least 3 years building production backend services in server-side Swift (Vapor); client-side Swift alone does not meet this requirement.
- Prior iOS/macOS or backend experience in other languages is welcome for the remaining years.
- Strong command of Swift concurrency, protocol-oriented design and Codable, including decoding payloads from external systems.
- Demonstrable production experience with concurrency, race conditions and idempotency in multi-instance services, including a specific bug found, diagnosed and fixed.
- Strong understanding of RESTful API design, authentication and token lifecycle.
- Production experience with MongoDB, including data modelling, indexing and query performance.
- Experience with Redis for caching and session state, including graceful behaviour when it is unavailable.
- Experience with ElasticSearch for search and listing.
- Experience integrating payment gateways and third-party APIs, including webhook-driven flows.
- Experience deploying and operating containerised services on Kubernetes, and using logs and metrics to reach defensible conclusions.
- Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and Swift Package Manager for dependency management.
- Strong grasp of performance, scalability and security best practices.
- Experience in 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.
- Experience with multi-tenant or multi-region systems where data isolation is a correctness requirement.
- Experience with localisation beyond string swapping, including right-to-left languages.
- Experience with AWS or another cloud platform for hosting backend services.
- Experience using logging and monitoring tools such as New Relic for investigation, not only dashboards.
- Experience with feature-flagging and progressive rollout platforms.
- Experience with Jenkins and Gerrit.
- Knowledge of Agile development methodologies.
Skills
Experience
At least 6 years of professional software development experience, including at least 3 years building production backend services in server-side Swift (Vapor).
Benefits
Health care, child education contribution, remote and flexible working policies, employee discounts, learning and development opportunities, exposure to different assignments and internal mobility.
Culture
Chalhoub Group combines its heritage as a family-owned business with the dynamism of the Middle East’s luxury sector, fostering a multicultural workplace rooted in collaboration and long-term relationships. Its culture emphasizes continuous learning, entrepreneurial initiative and excellence in customer experience, encouraging employees to develop their expertise while contributing to the evolution of luxury retail.
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