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H-2B visa sponsorship for Software Engineer roles is rare but real: U.S. employers in seasonal tech-dependent operations, such as resort management platforms, seasonal e-commerce infrastructure, and temporary data pipeline projects, sometimes petition for short-term software talent. The annual H-2B cap sits at 66,000 visas, so timing your application to the correct half-year filing window is critical.
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26956613
Location(s):
Irving, Texas, United States
Job Type:
Hybrid
Posted:
Apr. 23, 2026
Discover your future at Citi
Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of more than 230,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact.
Job Overview
Job Description
Overview of the Role
Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.
As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients’ best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.
Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We’ll enable growth and progress together.
The Digital Software Engineer Senior Analyst (SDET) is a Technology/ Engineering role involving both development and Testing. As a member of the SCRUM team, you will be delivering Customer facing Banking and/or Credit Card features on digital channels such as Browser and Mobile. You will be involved in all stages of the Agile SDLC cycle. It includes but not limited to (a) Requirement analysis: Grooming of user stories, Story pointing, decomposing big stories into smaller stories and define acceptance criteria. (b) Design Review: Reviewing screens, flows, features, and customer communications (emails, SMS’s, notifications, PDF documents) and making sure that they are consistent with user story acceptance criteria (c) Software development: Developing, configuring and debugging applications comprising of web and mobile frontend and Micro services. (d) Validations: Creating automated and manual test scripts on BDD (Behavior Based Development) framework, executing test scripts. Identifying, triaging and fixing any defects. Conditioning and maintaining the test data. (e) Artifact Ownership: Creating and maintaining testing artifacts such as Test plans and Exit reports and maintaining traceability as per SDLC guidelines. Maintaining SDLC hygiene involving stories. Test cases and defects. Ensuring that no untested code goes out to production. (f) SDLC Process and Standards: Adhering to ADA (Americans with Disability Act) Guidelines, participating in retrospectives, process improvement workshops, audits and performing root cause analysis. (g) Postproduction support: Supporting the technical check outs during release go live and postproduction activities.
Responsibilities
- Turn tech stack and application design into code on multiple development platforms (e.g. iOS, Android, web/Angular, Java spring boot services).
- Ability to use AI tools like Copilot for code generation, refactoring, and debugging.
- Develop and maintain BDD (Behavior Driven Development) automated and manual scripts in a code repository. Execute them and maintain test results in a test management tool for further reporting and establishing traceability. Create Jenkins jobs and plug in to CI-CD pipeline.
- Experience using AI tools accelerate unit tests, API scaffolding, Angular components, and Spring Boot boilerplate.
- Actively participate in the entire software development cycle involving development, integration and E2E testing in a CI/CD environment (RTC, Jenkins, RLM). Automate and enable shift left.
- Accountable for development, design, construction, testing and implementation and write secure, stable, testable and maintainable code.
- Continuously build, maintain documentation for your features and develop SME – Subject Matter Expertise in specific areas covering end to end flows, from digital to downstream to external partners.
- Analyze root causes for application issues and performance concerns. Collaborate within the scrum team, across other impacted downstream or upstream entities and external partners to solve the issues. Triage, track and report defects followed by prioritization, fix and closure.
- Adhere to SDLC control processes. Suggest and implement continuous improvements.
- Apart from functional validations to meet the acceptance criteria, validate Responsive Web Design and validate ADA Accessibility using screen readers such as NVDA, Voiceover and Talkback, code scan using Axe, perform CCA and be comfortable with other ADA tools and processes.
- Review metrics and proactively seek out new and improved ways for visibility ensuring your program stays on track or excels in meeting the organization objectives.
- Work in a fast-paced environment involving onshore offshore teams.
Education, Qualification & Certifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering or related fields in STEM or comparable work experience.
- 5-8 years of Full stack web / mobile Development and Testing experience in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience with functional and API test automation using test automation frameworks based on Selenium, Appium, Postman and Jenkins pipeline.
- Preferable to have experience with cloud-based development platforms such as OpenShift.
- Working knowledge of JIRA, Zephyr, Confluence SharePoint, Microsoft Teams and Microsoft office suit.
- Self-motivated and ready to take ownership.
- Excellent written, oral communication and interpersonal skills.
Job Family Group:
Technology
Job Family:
Digital Software Engineering
Time Type:
Full time
Primary Location:
Irving Texas United States
Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:
$107,120.00 - $160,680.00
In addition to salary, Citi’s offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.
Most Relevant Skills
Please see the requirements listed above.
Other Relevant Skills
For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.
Anticipated Posting Close Date:
Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.
If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity review Accessibility at Citi.
View Citi’s EEO Policy Statement and the Know Your Rights poster.
Job Req Id:
26956613
Location(s):
Irving, Texas, United States
Job Type:
Hybrid
Posted:
Apr. 23, 2026
Discover your future at Citi
Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of more than 230,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact.
Job Overview
Job Description
Overview of the Role
Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.
As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients’ best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.
Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We’ll enable growth and progress together.
The Digital Software Engineer Senior Analyst (SDET) is a Technology/ Engineering role involving both development and Testing. As a member of the SCRUM team, you will be delivering Customer facing Banking and/or Credit Card features on digital channels such as Browser and Mobile. You will be involved in all stages of the Agile SDLC cycle. It includes but not limited to (a) Requirement analysis: Grooming of user stories, Story pointing, decomposing big stories into smaller stories and define acceptance criteria. (b) Design Review: Reviewing screens, flows, features, and customer communications (emails, SMS’s, notifications, PDF documents) and making sure that they are consistent with user story acceptance criteria (c) Software development: Developing, configuring and debugging applications comprising of web and mobile frontend and Micro services. (d) Validations: Creating automated and manual test scripts on BDD (Behavior Based Development) framework, executing test scripts. Identifying, triaging and fixing any defects. Conditioning and maintaining the test data. (e) Artifact Ownership: Creating and maintaining testing artifacts such as Test plans and Exit reports and maintaining traceability as per SDLC guidelines. Maintaining SDLC hygiene involving stories. Test cases and defects. Ensuring that no untested code goes out to production. (f) SDLC Process and Standards: Adhering to ADA (Americans with Disability Act) Guidelines, participating in retrospectives, process improvement workshops, audits and performing root cause analysis. (g) Postproduction support: Supporting the technical check outs during release go live and postproduction activities.
Responsibilities
- Turn tech stack and application design into code on multiple development platforms (e.g. iOS, Android, web/Angular, Java spring boot services).
- Ability to use AI tools like Copilot for code generation, refactoring, and debugging.
- Develop and maintain BDD (Behavior Driven Development) automated and manual scripts in a code repository. Execute them and maintain test results in a test management tool for further reporting and establishing traceability. Create Jenkins jobs and plug in to CI-CD pipeline.
- Experience using AI tools accelerate unit tests, API scaffolding, Angular components, and Spring Boot boilerplate.
- Actively participate in the entire software development cycle involving development, integration and E2E testing in a CI/CD environment (RTC, Jenkins, RLM). Automate and enable shift left.
- Accountable for development, design, construction, testing and implementation and write secure, stable, testable and maintainable code.
- Continuously build, maintain documentation for your features and develop SME – Subject Matter Expertise in specific areas covering end to end flows, from digital to downstream to external partners.
- Analyze root causes for application issues and performance concerns. Collaborate within the scrum team, across other impacted downstream or upstream entities and external partners to solve the issues. Triage, track and report defects followed by prioritization, fix and closure.
- Adhere to SDLC control processes. Suggest and implement continuous improvements.
- Apart from functional validations to meet the acceptance criteria, validate Responsive Web Design and validate ADA Accessibility using screen readers such as NVDA, Voiceover and Talkback, code scan using Axe, perform CCA and be comfortable with other ADA tools and processes.
- Review metrics and proactively seek out new and improved ways for visibility ensuring your program stays on track or excels in meeting the organization objectives.
- Work in a fast-paced environment involving onshore offshore teams.
Education, Qualification & Certifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering or related fields in STEM or comparable work experience.
- 5-8 years of Full stack web / mobile Development and Testing experience in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience with functional and API test automation using test automation frameworks based on Selenium, Appium, Postman and Jenkins pipeline.
- Preferable to have experience with cloud-based development platforms such as OpenShift.
- Working knowledge of JIRA, Zephyr, Confluence SharePoint, Microsoft Teams and Microsoft office suit.
- Self-motivated and ready to take ownership.
- Excellent written, oral communication and interpersonal skills.
Job Family Group:
Technology
Job Family:
Digital Software Engineering
Time Type:
Full time
Primary Location:
Irving Texas United States
Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:
$107,120.00 - $160,680.00
In addition to salary, Citi’s offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.
Most Relevant Skills
Please see the requirements listed above.
Other Relevant Skills
For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.
Anticipated Posting Close Date:
Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.
If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity review Accessibility at Citi.
View Citi’s EEO Policy Statement and the Know Your Rights poster.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Software Engineer
Verify your role qualifies as temporary
H-2B visa covers temporary need, not permanent positions. Confirm your prospective employer can document a one-time, seasonal, peak-load, or intermittent software need before pursuing sponsorship, since DOL rejects petitions for roles tied to ongoing operational necessity.
Pull the O*NET profile for your role
Download the O*NET occupation profile for Software Developer or related titles. Employers cite it when justifying the temporary labor certification to DOL, so knowing the official job zone and task descriptions helps you align your resume and offer letter language precisely.
Search verified H-2B employers on Migrate Mate
Use Migrate Mate to filter employers with documented H-2B filing history for technology roles. Targeting companies that have successfully obtained labor certifications before cuts the prospecting time and surfaces realistic sponsorship candidates rather than employers unfamiliar with the process.
Time your outreach to the filing windows
The H-2B cap splits into two halves: October 1 for work starting October through March, and April 1 for work starting April through September. Contact target employers at least four months before their season starts so there's enough runway for DOL prevailing-wage determination and USCIS petition preparation.
Request the employer use the OFLC Wage Search
DOL requires employers to pay the prevailing wage for your occupation and location, determined through the OFLC Wage Search tool. Ask your prospective employer to run that lookup early so your offer letter reflects a compliant wage before the labor certification is submitted.
Prepare a project-scoped statement of work
Because H-2B petitions must demonstrate a defined end date, help your employer draft a clear statement of work with a fixed project timeline, deliverables, and a seasonal shutdown clause. USCIS officers scrutinize software roles closely for evidence of temporary rather than indefinite need.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find Software Engineer jobs with H-2B visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is the most direct way to search for Software Engineer positions where employers have H-2B filing history. Because H-2B sponsorship for tech roles is uncommon, filtering by verified labor certification activity saves significant time. Focus on employers in seasonal industries such as resort technology, event infrastructure, and e-commerce peak operations, where temporary software staffing needs are more structurally justifiable to DOL.
Does the H-2B annual cap affect when I can start a Software Engineer role?
Yes, directly. The H-2B program issues 66,000 visas per fiscal year, split into two 33,000-visa allotments by half-year. If demand exceeds supply in either half, USCIS runs a lottery among timely petitions. Missing the relevant filing window means waiting six months for the next allocation, so your employer needs to submit the DOL temporary labor certification well ahead of the intended start date.
Can a Software Engineer role qualify as a legitimate H-2B temporary position?
It can, but the burden of proof is high. DOL requires the employer to demonstrate a genuine temporary need, such as a defined-season platform build, a peak-traffic infrastructure project with a fixed end date, or a one-time system migration. Permanent or ongoing software maintenance roles don't qualify. The employer must document why the need is time-limited, not just that the hire is short-term.
What happens if my H-2B petition is still pending when the project start date arrives?
You cannot begin work until USCIS approves the H-2B petition and you obtain the visa stamp at a U.S. consulate abroad. Premium processing is available for H-2B petitions and reduces the USCIS adjudication window significantly. If the approved start date passes while the petition is pending, the employer typically needs to amend the petition with an updated start date, which adds time to the process.