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Swift Developer Job Description Template

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Mid-level in Latin America
$4,375/mo
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$11,875/mo
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Swift Developer

Build and maintain iOS applications and shared functionality using Swift, collaborating with product and engineering to deliver reliable features. You will work independently on well-defined work and help improve code quality, performance, and maintainability across the app.

Responsibilities

  • Implement and maintain iOS features in Swift using clean, testable code
  • Fix bugs and improve app reliability, performance, and responsiveness based on production signals
  • Design and implement client-side data flows (networking, caching, state management)
  • Collaborate on API integration and error handling patterns for consistent user experiences
  • Write and maintain unit/UI tests to prevent regressions and support safe releases
  • Participate in code reviews and help raise engineering standards for Swift codebases
  • Document important technical decisions and maintain project-level development hygiene

Must-have qualifications

  • Hands-on experience developing iOS apps in Swift
  • Proficiency with Swift concurrency (async/await, Tasks) and correct thread-safety practices
  • Strong understanding of UIKit or SwiftUI and common iOS UI patterns
  • Experience integrating REST APIs (networking, decoding, error handling) in production
  • Ability to write effective unit tests and/or UI tests for iOS features
  • Experience debugging iOS issues using logs, Instruments, and crash/metrics data

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with MVVM or similar architectural patterns in iOS apps
  • Experience with Swift Package Manager or modular code organization
  • Comfort working with basic CI workflows for iOS builds and tests

What success looks like in 12 months

  • Feature delivery with low defect rate
  • Faster bug resolution
  • Improved test coverage and reliability
  • Performance and responsiveness improvements
  • Code quality uplift

Logistics

  • Full-time (40 hours a week), remote from Latin America.
  • Working hours overlap with US business hours.

About the company

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Interview scorecard

Score every candidate against the same bar

Deliver reliable, high-quality iOS functionality in Swift while improving performance, test coverage, and maintainability.

Outcomes to measure

What this hire should deliver in the first year. Replace [N] with your own targets.

  • Feature delivery with low defect rate. Measure: Ship [N] iOS features with production crash-free sessions of at least [X]% and regressions affecting [Y]% or less of releases
  • Faster bug resolution. Measure: Reduce mean time to resolve iOS production defects by [X]% within 12 months
  • Improved test coverage and reliability. Measure: Increase automated test coverage for newly touched iOS areas by [X]% and maintain a test pass rate of at least [Y]% in CI
  • Performance and responsiveness improvements. Measure: Reduce key UI jank/latency metrics by [X]% (e.g., screen load time or interaction latency) based on agreed instrumentation
  • Code quality uplift. Measure: Raise code quality by meeting team standards on review outcomes (e.g., [X]% of PRs without follow-up rework requests within [Y] days)

Competencies and weights

What to evaluate, how much it counts and what a strong answer looks like.

Swift iOS development · 25%
This role is centered on implementing iOS features in Swift and maintaining a working app. Evaluated in Round 1.

  • Weak: Can implement small UI changes but needs frequent guidance to integrate with existing app code.
  • Meets the bar: Independently implements well-defined iOS features and follows existing project conventions.
  • Strong: Designs and implements end-to-end iOS changes with thoughtful APIs, minimal regressions, and clear code structure.

Swift concurrency correctness · 20%
Correct concurrency is essential to avoid race conditions, UI freezes, and inconsistent states. Evaluated in Round 1.

  • Weak: Writes concurrent code that risks race conditions or unclear task lifecycles.
  • Meets the bar: Uses async/await and Task management correctly; updates UI on the right execution context.
  • Strong: Demonstrates robust cancellation, avoids data races, and handles edge cases (timeouts, retries, cancellation) cleanly.

UI architecture fluency · 15%
Strong command of UIKit/SwiftUI patterns enables consistent UI behavior and maintainable screens. Evaluated in Round 2.

  • Weak: Struggles to apply the existing UI approach and introduces inconsistent UI state handling.
  • Meets the bar: Builds or updates screens using the project’s preferred UI framework and manages state predictably.
  • Strong: Creates reusable UI components and maintains consistent navigation/state handling across the app.

API integration and error handling · 15%
Reliable networking and decoding directly impacts app stability and user experience. Evaluated in Round 2.

  • Weak: Implements basic requests but lacks consistent decoding, validation, or error handling.
  • Meets the bar: Integrates REST APIs with solid decoding and user-safe error handling patterns.
  • Strong: Builds resilient API layers with clear mapping of error cases, retry/timeout strategies, and observability hooks.

Testing and regression prevention · 10%
Tests reduce regressions and enable safer independent delivery. Evaluated in Round 3.

  • Weak: Writes few or superficial tests that don’t catch common regressions.
  • Meets the bar: Adds relevant unit/UI tests for new behavior and ensures they are stable in CI.
  • Strong: Selects high-value test cases, uses test doubles effectively, and improves overall test strategy for the module.

iOS debugging and instrumentation · 10%
Debugging skill is needed to resolve production issues efficiently and improve performance. Evaluated in Round 3.

  • Weak: Relies primarily on guesswork; struggles to interpret logs or profiling results.
  • Meets the bar: Uses crash logs, metrics, and Instruments/logging to isolate issues and validate fixes.
  • Strong: Connects symptoms to root causes quickly and proposes preventative instrumentation or code changes.

Independence and delivery · 5%
Mid-level independence is required to execute well-defined work with minimal supervision. Evaluated in Round 2.

  • Weak: Often needs re-scoping; delays when requirements are ambiguous.
  • Meets the bar: Clarifies requirements early, completes tasks independently, and communicates progress/risks clearly.
  • Strong: Anticipates edge cases, drives tasks to completion, and proactively coordinates when dependencies arise.
Interview questions

Questions for every interview round

Each round has an owner, a time box and questions that test the competencies above.

Round 1: Swift fundamentals and concurrency
Senior iOS Engineer · 45 min

  1. Describe a Swift feature you shipped that uses async/await. How did you design the task lifecycle and handle cancellation or timeouts?
  2. Tell us about a time you encountered a concurrency-related bug (race condition, UI updated off the main thread, inconsistent state). What signals helped you find the root cause and how did you fix it?
  3. Walk through how you structure a typical iOS feature in Swift from view/controller to data and back. What responsibilities live in each layer?

Round 2: UI patterns and API integration
Product Engineering Lead · 50 min

  1. How do you decide between UIKit and SwiftUI approaches for a screen or flow? Give an example of a state-management decision you made.
  2. Explain how you implement REST API calls in Swift, including decoding and mapping errors to user-safe outcomes. How do you ensure consistent handling across the app?
  3. Describe a real bug related to UI state or navigation (e.g., stale data, duplicate requests, incorrect transitions). How did you prevent it from recurring?
  4. Give an example of how you operate independently on a well-defined scope: how did you clarify requirements, plan implementation, and validate your outcome?

Round 3: Testing, debugging, and quality
Engineering Manager · 55 min

  1. What is your approach to writing unit and/or UI tests for an iOS feature? Share a specific testing strategy you used to catch a regression.
  2. Describe a production iOS incident you investigated. What tools did you use (crash logs, metrics, Instruments, logs), and how did you validate the fix before considering it resolved?
  3. How do you improve maintainability after shipping—refactoring, extracting components, tightening types, or improving diagnostics? Provide one example and the impact you saw.

Red flags to watch for

  • Inconsistent understanding of Swift concurrency (e.g., frequent UI updates from background contexts or unclear cancellation handling)
  • Minimal testing practices or inability to explain how tests prevent real regressions
  • Difficulty explaining concrete debugging steps using real signals (crash logs, Instruments, metrics)
  • Overreliance on others to integrate or finish features even when scope is well-defined

How much does it cost to hire a Swift Developer in Latin America?

In 2026, a senior Swift Developer in Latin America costs $6,625 to $7,625 a month all-in, versus $14,625 in the US: up to 55% less. Mid-level starts at $4,375.

Country

Mid-level

Senior

Argentina

$4,375

$6,625

Brazil

$4,875

$7,375

Colombia

$4,375

$6,625

Mexico

$5,125

$7,625

United States

$11,875

$14,625

Monthly cost in USD, all-in: the talent's salary plus Teilur's flat 20% fee, from our 2026 rates. The United States row shows what the same role typically costs there.

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Frequently asked questions

What does a Swift Developer do?

Typical responsibilities include: implement and maintain iOS features in Swift using clean, testable code; fix bugs and improve app reliability, performance, and responsiveness based on production signals; design and implement client-side data flows (networking, caching, state management). The full list is in the template above.

How much does it cost to hire a Swift Developer in Latin America?

In 2026, a senior Swift Developer in Latin America costs $6,625 to $7,625 a month all-in, versus $14,625 in the US: up to 55% less. Mid-level starts at $4,375.

Can I customize this Swift Developer job description?

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