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iOS Engineer roles qualify for EB-2 and EB-3 green card sponsorship when the position requires a bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, software engineering, or a related field. Employers file a PERM labor certification with DOL before sponsoring you for permanent residency, making iOS Engineer one of the more straightforward tech roles to qualify.
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Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.
Why Join Us?
To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.
We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.
Introduction to Team
Our Technology Team partners with teams across Expedia Group to create innovative products, services, and tools to deliver high-quality experiences for travelers, partners, and our employees. A singular technology platform powered by data and machine learning provides secure, differentiated, and personalized experiences that drive loyalty and traveler satisfaction.
This iOS Engineer II role is part of the Air Shopping team which sits within our Technology division. The Air Shopping team focuses on creating a personalized air shopping and comparison experience that empowers travelers to confidently choose the best flight, fare, and ancillaries for their journey by investing in smart shopping, flexible search, personalized search and comparison, and merchandising of air deals and ancillaries. In this role, you will contribute to building and optimizing mobile experiences that bring these capabilities to life for travelers, improving how they discover, compare, and select flights on our apps.
In this role, you will:
- Design, build, and maintain iOS application features using approved patterns and frameworks, ensuring code quality, readability, and maintainability.
- Implement robust client-side architectures, including system design at the feature and component level, API consumption patterns, and data modeling aligned with backend contracts.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to refine requirements, estimate work, and deliver customer-facing capabilities on time and with high reliability.
- Write and maintain unit, integration, and UI tests, participate in code reviews, and contribute to continuous improvement of development, build, and release pipelines.
- Diagnose, debug, and resolve issues in production and pre-production environments, using logs, metrics, and analytics to improve app performance, stability, and user experience.
- Safely integrate and operate AI/ML-enabled solutions that improve outcomes, including familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience.
- 2+ years of relevant professional experience.
- Professional experience developing and shipping native iOS applications, including owning well-defined features or components in a production app.
- Proficiency with core iOS development tools and languages, and experience integrating with RESTful APIs and data models defined by backend services.
- Experience with source control, automated testing, and continuous integration systems in a collaborative, team-based engineering environment.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Proficient in Swift programming for modern iOS development.
- Experienced with SwiftUI for building declarative, responsive interfaces.
- Experience designing and implementing iOS feature-level architectures, including view hierarchies, navigation flows, API interaction patterns, and data models optimized for performance and reliability.
- Background improving app quality and operational excellence using analytics, logging, experimentation, and performance tuning at scale.
- Familiarity with AI-driven systems and tooling within mobile applications, such as personalized experiences or intelligent assistance, and safely integrating and operating AI/ML-enabled solutions that improve outcomes.
- Experience applying foundational AI/ML concepts in mobile contexts, such as on-device inference, model-driven recommendations, or intelligent automation that enhance user experience and business impact.
The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $119,000.00 to $166,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $190,500.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role. Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.
Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee’s passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership. View our full list of benefits.
Accommodation requests
If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.
We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.
Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Expedia Group™ Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert®, CarRentals.com™, and Expedia Cruises™. © 2024 Expedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks and logos are the property of their respective owners. CST: 2029030-50
Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group’s Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never provide sensitive, personal information to someone unless you’re confident who the recipient is. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or any other messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official website to find and apply for job openings at Expedia Group is careers.expediagroup.com/jobs.
Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.
INTRODUCTION
Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.
Why Join Us?
To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.
We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.
Introduction to Team
Our Technology Team partners with teams across Expedia Group to create innovative products, services, and tools to deliver high-quality experiences for travelers, partners, and our employees. A singular technology platform powered by data and machine learning provides secure, differentiated, and personalized experiences that drive loyalty and traveler satisfaction.
This iOS Engineer II role is part of the Air Shopping team which sits within our Technology division. The Air Shopping team focuses on creating a personalized air shopping and comparison experience that empowers travelers to confidently choose the best flight, fare, and ancillaries for their journey by investing in smart shopping, flexible search, personalized search and comparison, and merchandising of air deals and ancillaries. In this role, you will contribute to building and optimizing mobile experiences that bring these capabilities to life for travelers, improving how they discover, compare, and select flights on our apps.
In this role, you will:
- Design, build, and maintain iOS application features using approved patterns and frameworks, ensuring code quality, readability, and maintainability.
- Implement robust client-side architectures, including system design at the feature and component level, API consumption patterns, and data modeling aligned with backend contracts.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to refine requirements, estimate work, and deliver customer-facing capabilities on time and with high reliability.
- Write and maintain unit, integration, and UI tests, participate in code reviews, and contribute to continuous improvement of development, build, and release pipelines.
- Diagnose, debug, and resolve issues in production and pre-production environments, using logs, metrics, and analytics to improve app performance, stability, and user experience.
- Safely integrate and operate AI/ML-enabled solutions that improve outcomes, including familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience.
- 2+ years of relevant professional experience.
- Professional experience developing and shipping native iOS applications, including owning well-defined features or components in a production app.
- Proficiency with core iOS development tools and languages, and experience integrating with RESTful APIs and data models defined by backend services.
- Experience with source control, automated testing, and continuous integration systems in a collaborative, team-based engineering environment.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Proficient in Swift programming for modern iOS development.
- Experienced with SwiftUI for building declarative, responsive interfaces.
- Experience designing and implementing iOS feature-level architectures, including view hierarchies, navigation flows, API interaction patterns, and data models optimized for performance and reliability.
- Background improving app quality and operational excellence using analytics, logging, experimentation, and performance tuning at scale.
- Familiarity with AI-driven systems and tooling within mobile applications, such as personalized experiences or intelligent assistance, and safely integrating and operating AI/ML-enabled solutions that improve outcomes.
- Experience applying foundational AI/ML concepts in mobile contexts, such as on-device inference, model-driven recommendations, or intelligent automation that enhance user experience and business impact.
The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $119,000.00 to $166,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $190,500.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role. Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.
Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee’s passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership. View our full list of benefits.
Accommodation requests
If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.
We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.
Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Expedia Group™ Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert®, CarRentals.com™, and Expedia Cruises™. © 2024 Expedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks and logos are the property of their respective owners. CST: 2029030-50
Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group’s Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never provide sensitive, personal information to someone unless you’re confident who the recipient is. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or any other messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official website to find and apply for job openings at Expedia Group is careers.expediagroup.com/jobs.
Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as an iOS Engineer
Align your credentials to PERM requirements
PERM requires your foreign degree to match the minimum requirements stated in the job description. Get a credential evaluation confirming your computer science or software engineering degree meets U.S. equivalency before any employer starts the labor certification process.
Document your iOS specialization clearly
USCIS scrutinizes whether the role genuinely requires a specialist. Gather evidence of Swift proficiency, App Store publications, or platform-specific frameworks like SwiftUI and UIKit. These substantiate the specialty occupation basis for your EB-2 or EB-3 petition.
Target employers with active PERM filing history
Search Migrate Mate to filter iOS Engineer roles by employers who have filed PERM applications. Companies that have run the process before understand the timeline and are far less likely to stall your green card mid-filing.
Ask employers about their EB-2 versus EB-3 category strategy
Some employers default to EB-3 because the job description can't support an advanced-degree requirement. Before signing an offer, confirm which category your role is slotted for, since EB-2 may significantly shorten your wait time depending on your country of birth.
Understand how priority dates affect your iOS career plans
Your priority date is set when DOL receives the PERM application, not when you join the company. For nationals of India or China, EB-2 and EB-3 backlogs can span years, so negotiate employment terms that allow you to stay at the sponsoring employer through adjustment of status.
Verify your employer is E-Verify enrolled before PERM starts
DOL's PERM process requires employers to demonstrate good-faith recruitment. Separately, USCIS expects lawful employment throughout. Confirming your employer is enrolled in E-Verify early avoids complications when I-485 adjudicators review your employment history.
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Does an iOS Engineer role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Most iOS Engineer positions qualify for EB-3 as a skilled worker role requiring a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field. EB-2 applies when the job genuinely requires an advanced degree or when the candidate pursues a National Interest Waiver. The employer's job description determines the category, and USCIS reviews whether the stated requirements are consistent with the duties.
How does PERM green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for iOS Engineers?
H-1B is a temporary work visa subject to an annual lottery and a six-year maximum stay. PERM-based green card sponsorship targets permanent residency with no lottery and no cap at the EB-3 level. The tradeoff is timeline: PERM labor certification alone takes several months, followed by I-140 adjudication and, for some nationalities, a priority date wait before you can file for adjustment of status.
How long does the green card process typically take for an iOS Engineer?
For most countries other than India and China, the full process from PERM filing to a green card approval runs roughly two to four years when using standard processing. DOL targets a PERM adjudication window of several months, and USCIS I-140 standard processing adds additional time. For Indian and Chinese nationals, EB-2 and EB-3 priority date backlogs can extend the wait significantly longer.
Where can I find iOS Engineer jobs that offer green card sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for this search. You can filter iOS Engineer roles by employers who have a documented PERM filing history, so you're targeting companies that have already run the process rather than guessing whether sponsorship is available. That distinction matters because many job postings say sponsorship is possible without committing to the full PERM and I-140 pathway.
Can I switch iOS Engineering jobs while my green card is pending?
You can change employers after your I-140 is approved and your I-485 has been pending for at least 180 days, as long as the new role is the same or similar occupational classification under AC21 portability rules. Software engineering and iOS development roles generally fall within the same SOC codes, but confirm with an immigration attorney before accepting any new offer while your adjustment of status is pending.
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