STEM OPT Mobile App Development Jobs
Mobile app development roles in iOS, Android, and cross-platform frameworks qualify for STEM OPT when your degree is in computer science, software engineering, or a related CIP-coded field. Your 24-month STEM OPT extension requires your employer to be enrolled in E-Verify and sign off on a structured I-983 training plan tied to your development work.
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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 STEM OPT Authorization in Mobile App Development
Verify your degree CIP code eligibility
Check your school's Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) record to confirm your degree carries a STEM-designated CIP code. Degrees in computer science, software engineering, and information systems typically qualify, but your DSO must authorize the extension before your initial OPT expires.
Confirm E-Verify enrollment before accepting offers
Ask hiring managers directly whether the company is enrolled in E-Verify before you spend time on interviews. Startup studios and small mobile agencies frequently aren't enrolled, which disqualifies them as STEM OPT employers regardless of how strong the role or training plan looks.
Frame your I-983 around platform-specific skill goals
When negotiating your training plan, tie each learning objective to a concrete deliverable: shipping a feature in Swift, reducing app crash rates, or integrating a new SDK. Vague plans get flagged in USCIS site visits, and specificity protects both you and your employer.
Target companies with active H-1B filing histories
Use Migrate Mate to filter mobile development roles by employers with documented H-1B visa LCA filings. This signals the company already understands visa processes and is structured for E-Verify compliance, reducing the risk of discovering mid-offer that they can't support your STEM OPT.
Use OFLC Wage Search to benchmark your offer
Pull the prevailing wage for your SOC code and metro area using the OFLC Wage Search before evaluating any offer. STEM OPT employers must pay the prevailing wage listed on your I-983, so knowing the DOL benchmark tells you whether a low offer could create compliance problems.
File your cap-gap extension paperwork on time
If you're transitioning from STEM OPT to H-1B and your OPT end date falls before October 1, your status is covered by cap-gap only if your employer files the H-1B petition before your EAD expires. Track your EAD expiration date and coordinate filing timelines with your employer's HR team early.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does my computer science or software engineering degree qualify me for the STEM OPT extension in mobile app development roles?
Yes, if your degree carries a STEM-designated CIP code, which computer science, software engineering, electrical engineering, and most information technology programs do. Your DSO confirms eligibility and authorizes the extension through SEVIS. The role itself must also be directly related to your degree field, so a mobile development job tied to your CS degree satisfies that requirement. Check your I-20 with your DSO before assuming eligibility.
How do I find mobile app development employers who are enrolled in E-Verify?
Migrate Mate filters mobile development roles by employers with verified E-Verify enrollment and active LCA filing history, so you're not discovering compliance gaps after you've already accepted an offer. You can also ask any employer directly during the first interview round. E-Verify enrollment is a federal requirement for STEM OPT sponsors, and no exemption exists regardless of company size or funding stage.
What should my I-983 training plan include for a mobile app development role?
Your I-983 must describe specific, measurable learning objectives tied to your job duties. For mobile development, that means listing technical skills you'll develop, such as building features in a specific framework, improving app performance metrics, or learning platform-specific deployment processes. Generic descriptions like 'gain software experience' are insufficient. Both you and a company supervisor must sign the plan, and your employer must report your progress to your DSO every six months.
Can I work as a freelance or contract mobile developer on STEM OPT?
Self-employment is not permitted under STEM OPT. You must be employed by a single E-Verify-enrolled employer that signs your I-983 training plan and supervises your work. Contract roles through a staffing agency are allowed if the agency is E-Verify enrolled and acts as your employer of record, but you can't work directly as an independent contractor billing clients under your own name.
What happens to my STEM OPT authorization if I'm selected in the H-1B lottery?
If your employer files an H-1B petition on your behalf before your EAD expires, cap-gap provisions extend your STEM OPT work authorization automatically through September 30 of that year. Your status and employment authorization remain valid during this period even if your EAD card shows an earlier expiration date. USCIS issues a cap-gap extension automatically when the petition is timely filed, but your employer must act before your current EAD expires.