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Mobile App Developer jobs are among the most actively sponsored OPT roles in tech. Employers regularly file H-1B visa petitions and offer OPT extensions through STEM OPT for iOS and Android development positions, giving you up to three years of authorized work experience to build your U.S. career.
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As an Mobile Engineer II within NextGear Capital, you will help build and evolve the mobile experiences that support customers, team members, and critical business operations across one of the automotive industry's leading inventory finance organizations. Working as part of a collaborative product and engineering team, you will deliver modern mobile solutions that improve user experiences, increase operational efficiency, and support the continued digital transformation of the business.
This role is ideal for a Mobile engineer who has progressed beyond purely guided execution and is ready to take ownership of discrete features and application components while continuing to grow technical depth and business understanding. You will partner closely with product managers, designers, backend engineers, and fellow mobile developers to deliver high-quality native Android applications that solve meaningful customer and business problems.
At NextGear Capital, AI-assisted software development is becoming a foundational aspect of how engineering teams work. In this role, you'll leverage modern AI tools and development practices throughout the software development lifecycle to accelerate delivery, improve quality, and enhance collaboration. Success requires strong mobile engineering fundamentals, thoughtful application of AI-augmented workflows, and a commitment to maintaining high standards for code quality, security, performance, and user experience.
You'll have opportunities to contribute across the mobile development lifecycle, participate in technical design discussions, collaborate on product initiatives, and help shape modern engineering practices within an organization actively investing in innovation, automation, and AI-driven transformation.
What You'll Do:
- Collaborate with AI agents and tools to build, test, and deploy software across the SDLC, providing proper contextual inputs to improve AI understanding and ownership of output quality
- Contribute to prompt engineering experimentation and share tool usage insights with the team
- Engage in design and development discussions, helping the team conceptualize desired outcomes from a software engineering perspective
- Assist with feature/element estimation in terms of technical input, resources, time, and anticipated outcomes
- Develop and implement unit and system tests for integral code paths, ensuring adherence to secure coding practices at all times
- Provide technical support, including troubleshooting and enhancement, for existing and new features within application and system structures
- Use observability tools (logs, metrics, traces, dashboards) to monitor system health, diagnose issues, and validate that changes behave as expected in production
- Document processes to capture best practices, applicable methodologies, and repeatability going forward
- Update team members, manager, product owners, and other key stakeholders on status, challenges, and concerns
- Participate in code reviews, both giving and receiving feedback
- Take ownership of assigned work and drive it to completion with minimal oversight, while staying closely engaged with teammates, raising blockers early, and pitching in on shared team goals beyond your own assigned tasks
WHO YOU ARE:
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 2 years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and up to 2 years' experience; or 14 years' experience in a related field
- AI-Augmented Mindset: Consistent, effective use of AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor, etc.) across the SDLC. You provide strong context, iterate on outputs, and critically evaluate quality and correctness rather than accepting output as-is. Spec Driven Development (SDD) experience is a plus.
- Problem Solving: Sound analytical judgment. Troubleshoots and resolves moderately complex issues with limited guidance
- Mobile Ecosystem Awareness: Working knowledge of the systems your native mobile applications integrate with, including REST APIs, backend services (e.g., Java/Spring Boot), authentication patterns, and relational data models. Understands how mobile applications interact with distributed systems and can effectively troubleshoot issues across integration points, while maintaining depth in native mobile development as their primary area of expertise.
- Native Mobile Development: Demonstrated experience building native mobile applications using Android (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose) and/or iOS (Swift, SwiftUI) technologies. Familiarity with modern mobile architecture patterns, platform development tools, testing frameworks, and performance optimization techniques.
- Version Control & Collaboration: Comfortable with Git workflows, branching strategies, and collaborative development practices
- Observability: Working knowledge of logging, metrics, and monitoring tools (e.g., New Relic, dashboards, alerts) to understand system behavior and health
- Communication: Able to clearly explain technical tradeoffs and status to teammates and non-technical stakeholders
- This role requires working in the office three days per week in Carmel, Indiana
OUTCOMES
- Working Software, Every Sprint: Produce working software each sprint that meets the definition of done, delivers expected value, and stays within constraints defined by engineering leadership
- AI Fluency: Maintain effective AI-augmented workflows that measurably improve speed and quality. Actively share what works with the team
- Quality Solutions: Deliver maintainable, testable, and performant software that leverages existing patterns and meets client needs, with solution complexity understood well enough to produce consistent, meaningful estimates
- Craft Growth: Demonstrate measurable growth toward independent ownership of features and system elements
- Plan Transparency: Ensure changes in direction that affect time, effort, cost, or scope are surfaced to the team and above quickly
- Initiative: Identify opportunities for automation, improvement, or learning and act on them with minimal guidance
COMPENSATION
- Salary Range: $89,400.00 - $134,000.00 per year
Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $89,400.00 - $134,000.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.
BENEFITS
The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
EOE, including disability/vets
INTRODUCTION
As an Mobile Engineer II within NextGear Capital, you will help build and evolve the mobile experiences that support customers, team members, and critical business operations across one of the automotive industry's leading inventory finance organizations. Working as part of a collaborative product and engineering team, you will deliver modern mobile solutions that improve user experiences, increase operational efficiency, and support the continued digital transformation of the business.
This role is ideal for a Mobile engineer who has progressed beyond purely guided execution and is ready to take ownership of discrete features and application components while continuing to grow technical depth and business understanding. You will partner closely with product managers, designers, backend engineers, and fellow mobile developers to deliver high-quality native Android applications that solve meaningful customer and business problems.
At NextGear Capital, AI-assisted software development is becoming a foundational aspect of how engineering teams work. In this role, you'll leverage modern AI tools and development practices throughout the software development lifecycle to accelerate delivery, improve quality, and enhance collaboration. Success requires strong mobile engineering fundamentals, thoughtful application of AI-augmented workflows, and a commitment to maintaining high standards for code quality, security, performance, and user experience.
You'll have opportunities to contribute across the mobile development lifecycle, participate in technical design discussions, collaborate on product initiatives, and help shape modern engineering practices within an organization actively investing in innovation, automation, and AI-driven transformation.
What You'll Do:
- Collaborate with AI agents and tools to build, test, and deploy software across the SDLC, providing proper contextual inputs to improve AI understanding and ownership of output quality
- Contribute to prompt engineering experimentation and share tool usage insights with the team
- Engage in design and development discussions, helping the team conceptualize desired outcomes from a software engineering perspective
- Assist with feature/element estimation in terms of technical input, resources, time, and anticipated outcomes
- Develop and implement unit and system tests for integral code paths, ensuring adherence to secure coding practices at all times
- Provide technical support, including troubleshooting and enhancement, for existing and new features within application and system structures
- Use observability tools (logs, metrics, traces, dashboards) to monitor system health, diagnose issues, and validate that changes behave as expected in production
- Document processes to capture best practices, applicable methodologies, and repeatability going forward
- Update team members, manager, product owners, and other key stakeholders on status, challenges, and concerns
- Participate in code reviews, both giving and receiving feedback
- Take ownership of assigned work and drive it to completion with minimal oversight, while staying closely engaged with teammates, raising blockers early, and pitching in on shared team goals beyond your own assigned tasks
WHO YOU ARE:
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 2 years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and up to 2 years' experience; or 14 years' experience in a related field
- AI-Augmented Mindset: Consistent, effective use of AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor, etc.) across the SDLC. You provide strong context, iterate on outputs, and critically evaluate quality and correctness rather than accepting output as-is. Spec Driven Development (SDD) experience is a plus.
- Problem Solving: Sound analytical judgment. Troubleshoots and resolves moderately complex issues with limited guidance
- Mobile Ecosystem Awareness: Working knowledge of the systems your native mobile applications integrate with, including REST APIs, backend services (e.g., Java/Spring Boot), authentication patterns, and relational data models. Understands how mobile applications interact with distributed systems and can effectively troubleshoot issues across integration points, while maintaining depth in native mobile development as their primary area of expertise.
- Native Mobile Development: Demonstrated experience building native mobile applications using Android (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose) and/or iOS (Swift, SwiftUI) technologies. Familiarity with modern mobile architecture patterns, platform development tools, testing frameworks, and performance optimization techniques.
- Version Control & Collaboration: Comfortable with Git workflows, branching strategies, and collaborative development practices
- Observability: Working knowledge of logging, metrics, and monitoring tools (e.g., New Relic, dashboards, alerts) to understand system behavior and health
- Communication: Able to clearly explain technical tradeoffs and status to teammates and non-technical stakeholders
- This role requires working in the office three days per week in Carmel, Indiana
OUTCOMES
- Working Software, Every Sprint: Produce working software each sprint that meets the definition of done, delivers expected value, and stays within constraints defined by engineering leadership
- AI Fluency: Maintain effective AI-augmented workflows that measurably improve speed and quality. Actively share what works with the team
- Quality Solutions: Deliver maintainable, testable, and performant software that leverages existing patterns and meets client needs, with solution complexity understood well enough to produce consistent, meaningful estimates
- Craft Growth: Demonstrate measurable growth toward independent ownership of features and system elements
- Plan Transparency: Ensure changes in direction that affect time, effort, cost, or scope are surfaced to the team and above quickly
- Initiative: Identify opportunities for automation, improvement, or learning and act on them with minimal guidance
COMPENSATION
- Salary Range: $89,400.00 - $134,000.00 per year
Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $89,400.00 - $134,000.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.
BENEFITS
The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
EOE, including disability/vets
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship as a Mobile App Developer
Target companies with active mobile product teams
Companies building consumer or enterprise mobile products need dedicated app developers year-round. Prioritize employers with iOS or Android apps already in production, they have ongoing development needs and are far more likely to sponsor OPT and file H-1B visa petitions.
Confirm your role qualifies for STEM OPT extension
Mobile App Developer falls under CIP code 11.0201 (Computer Programming) if your degree is in computer science or software engineering. Confirm with your DSO before accepting an offer that your specific degree and role combination qualifies for the 24-month STEM OPT extension.
Showcase platform-specific expertise in your resume
Employers sponsoring OPT want specialists, not generalists. Lead with your primary platform, Swift and Xcode for iOS, Kotlin and Android Studio for Android, or Flutter and React Native for cross-platform. Vague mobile experience raises sponsorship concerns; specific frameworks signal immediate value.
Research an employer's H-1B filing history before applying
Companies that have sponsored H-1B visas for mobile developers in the past are significantly more likely to sponsor yours. Check OFLC disclosure data for LCA filings under job titles like Mobile Developer or Software Engineer to verify a company's actual sponsorship track record.
Raise sponsorship early in the interview process
Bring up your OPT status and STEM extension eligibility before the offer stage, not after. Framing it as a straightforward process with a three-year runway reduces employer hesitation and filters out companies unwilling to sponsor before you invest time in multiple interview rounds.
Build a portfolio of deployed apps before applying
A published app on the App Store or Google Play demonstrates production-level experience that a resume alone cannot. Employers sponsoring visa status want low-risk hires, and shipping real products reduces perceived hiring risk considerably compared to candidates with only academic or internship projects.
Mobile App Developer OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Can I work as a Mobile App Developer on OPT without employer sponsorship?
Yes. During your initial 12-month OPT period, you're authorized to work for any employer who hires you, no formal sponsorship petition is required. Your employer does need to sign your STEM OPT I-983 training plan if you pursue the 24-month extension, but the initial OPT period requires no employer filing whatsoever.
Does a Mobile App Developer role qualify for STEM OPT extension?
It typically does if your degree is in computer science, software engineering, information technology, or a related STEM-designated CIP code. The role itself must involve applying scientific, technical, or engineering knowledge directly. Titles like Mobile Developer, iOS Engineer, and Android Engineer consistently qualify. Confirm eligibility with your DSO, since the degree-to-role match is what determines approval.
Where can I find Mobile App Developer jobs that sponsor OPT students?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for F-1 OPT students and filters for employers actively open to sponsoring international candidates. Searching for mobile development roles on Migrate Mate surfaces companies that have demonstrated sponsorship history, saving you from applying to employers who will decline at the offer stage due to visa status.
How much time do I have to find a Mobile App Developer job after graduation?
You have a 60-day grace period after your program end date to find employment before your OPT authorization begins. Once USCIS approves your EAD, the 12-month OPT clock starts. You cannot work until you receive your EAD, so apply for OPT as early as 90 days before graduation to avoid losing authorized work time.
Can I freelance or work as a contractor as a Mobile App Developer on OPT?
Yes, self-employment and freelance work are permitted on OPT provided the work is directly related to your degree field and constitutes legitimate employment. You must work at least 20 hours per week to remain in valid OPT status. For STEM OPT extension, self-employment has additional restrictions and your DSO will need to approve the I-983 training plan structure.