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React Native Developer jobs on OPT are a strong fit for F-1 students with mobile development experience, since most roles qualify as specialty occupations under STEM OPT's 24-month extension. Employers in this space are accustomed to sponsoring work authorization, and full-stack mobile skills tied to a computer science or software engineering degree make the case straightforward.
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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 React Native Developer
Frame your degree as the qualification anchor
React Native roles typically require a computer science, software engineering, or information systems degree to qualify as a specialty occupation. Lead with your degree field when applying so employers can quickly confirm your OPT eligibility without back-and-forth.
Highlight cross-platform projects in your portfolio
Employers evaluating OPT candidates want proof you can ship production-ready apps. Include GitHub links to React Native projects that run on both iOS and Android, and note any app store deployments. Concrete output reduces hiring hesitation around sponsorship.
Confirm STEM OPT eligibility before applying
If your degree is in computer science, software engineering, or a related STEM field, you likely qualify for the 24-month STEM OPT extension, giving employers up to three years before needing H-1B visa sponsorship. Confirm your CIP code with your DSO before interviews.
Target startups and mid-size product companies
Smaller product-focused companies building mobile apps often have faster hiring decisions and more flexibility around OPT sponsorship than large enterprises. They hire React Native developers at earlier career stages and are more willing to invest in work authorization support.
Address OPT proactively, not defensively
Bring up your OPT status before the employer asks, and keep it brief: your current authorization timeline, your STEM extension eligibility, and your longer-term H-1B plan. Candidates who explain this clearly signal professionalism and reduce perceived sponsorship risk.
Demonstrate TypeScript and native module experience
React Native roles requiring TypeScript or native module integration are harder to fill, which gives OPT candidates more leverage. If you have experience bridging native iOS or Android code, highlight it explicitly. Specialized skills make the sponsorship conversation shorter.
React Native Developer OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Do React Native Developer jobs qualify for STEM OPT extension?
Yes, in nearly all cases. React Native Developer roles are software engineering positions that fall under CIP codes tied to computer science, software engineering, and information systems, all of which qualify for the 24-month STEM OPT extension. Your degree field determines eligibility, not the job title itself, so confirm your CIP code with your DSO before your OPT end date approaches.
How do I find React Native Developer jobs that sponsor OPT?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for F-1 OPT students and filters React Native Developer jobs by employers who sponsor work authorization. General job boards don't filter by sponsorship willingness, which means a lot of wasted applications. Browsing on Migrate Mate lets you focus on roles where OPT is already an accepted qualification, not an obstacle to clear.
Can I work as a React Native Developer on day-one OPT before the STEM extension?
Yes. Standard OPT grants 12 months of work authorization after graduation, and React Native Developer roles qualify as practical training in a related field as long as your degree is in computer science, software engineering, or a similar discipline. You can begin working as soon as your EAD card is valid and your employment start date is reached.
What happens to my OPT if I get laid off from a React Native Developer role?
Standard OPT gives you 90 days of unemployment, while STEM OPT gives you 150 days total across the extension period. During that window you must actively search for a qualifying role. React Native is in consistent demand across mobile-first companies, so the gap is often shorter than students expect. Report any employment changes to your DSO promptly to stay in status.
Do employers typically sponsor H-1B after hiring a React Native Developer on OPT?
Many do, but it depends on the employer. Companies that hire OPT students into engineering roles are usually aware of the H-1B process and budget for it. React Native developers are consistently in demand in mobile product teams, which makes employers more willing to invest in long-term sponsorship. Ask directly during the offer stage whether the company sponsors H-1B for software engineering roles.