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iOS Engineer roles qualify for TN visa sponsorship under the USMCA's Computer Systems Analyst category, covering mobile software development work that requires a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field. Canadian citizens can secure TN status at the border or a pre-flight inspection site, while Mexican citizens apply at a U.S. consulate.
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The pay range is $98,000.00 - $176,000.00. Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.
About us:
Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
As a Senior Engineer, you serve as a specialist in the engineering team that supports the product. You help develop and gain insight in the application architecture. You can distill an abstract architecture into concrete design and influence the implementation. You show expertise in applying the appropriate software engineering patterns to build robust and scalable systems. You are an expert in programming and apply your skills in developing the product. You have the skills to design and implement the architecture on your own, but choose to influence your fellow engineers by proposing software designs, providing feedback on software designs and/or implementation. You show good problem solving skills and can help the team in triaging operational issues. You leverage your expertise in eliminating repeat occurrences. We also embrace AI-assisted development and Generative AI tools to enhance productivity, creativity, and developer experience across our engineering teams. You’ll have opportunities to experiment, innovate, and influence how Target engineers build the next generation of retail technology.
Flagship Mobile Apps:
Work on the team that brings Target guests their “shopping and saving sidekick” – the guest-facing Target Android and iOS shopping app.
iOS Platform Team:
This position is for the iOS Platform team within Flagship Mobile Apps at Target. As a team, we enjoy tackling big problems in a large and complex iOS codebase. We are continually assessing new iOS technologies and building on our vision for keeping Target’s iOS app stable, fast, and a joy for others to code in. We love building things for other engineers, and we get joy in knowing other iOS engineers can do their job more effectively due to our contributions. If any of this excites you, we would love to have you join us!
As a Senior iOS Engineer on the Mobile Platform team, you will:
- Help advance our architecture and abstractions, allowing our code to continue to scale and empowering feature teams to deliver with ever increasing autonomy.
- Drive adoption of modern Swift Concurrency (async/await, structured concurrency, actors) to improve safety, readability, and performance.
- Improve and maintain our mobile apps CI and CD infrastructure and pipelines.
- Develop clean, well-tested code to deliver functionality that meets the broader engineering team’s needs.
- Build and maintain developer tools to help our feature teams work effectively.
- Develop libraries and foundations in areas such as build tools, testing, analytics, networking, and logging.
- Solicit feedback from the development team to help drive a great overall developer experience.
- Mentor junior engineers to provide guidance on coding and design best practices for iOS apps.
- Provide high level tooling support to feature team engineers during work hours.
Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 4 year degree or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of professional software development experience
- 3+ years of experience developing apps for iOS
- Experience developing in Swift
- Experience with test-driven development and software test automation
- Excellent debugging, performance and optimization skills
- Experience with distributing mobile applications via public app stores and/or enterprise channels
- Experience with integrating calls to backend services (REST or GraphQL, JSON, etc.)
- Excellent hands-on skills with iOS application development tools including Xcode
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
If you have experience with any of the following, it’s a bonus, but not required for the job. If working on a team that does these things and getting to learn them on the job sounds exciting, that is great too!
- Expertise in Apple development, tools, and frameworks
- Integrating with third party frameworks, tools, and SDKs
- Reactive Programming
- Dependency injection
- Common iOS architectures (MVC, MVVM, The Composable Architecture)
- Experience with authenticated session using OAuth and authenticated tokens
- Accessibility experience
- Continuous delivery in mobile, including Test- or Behavior-Driven Design, code review, static analysis, continuous integration, automation and functional testing.
- Experience with build systems on highly modularized apps (xcodebuild, Tuist, Fastlane, Swift Package Manager, Bazel etc.)
- Static and dynamic analyzers (Danger, SwiftLint, SwiftFormat, etc.)
- Code generators (SwiftGen)
- Experience with SwiftUI and building Design Systems libraries
- AI-assisted coding, developer productivity tools
This position may be considered for a Remote or Hybrid (known internally at Target as "Flex for Your Day") work arrangement based on Target's needs. A Remote work arrangement means the team member works full-time from home or an alternate location that's not a Target location, does not have a desk at a Target location and may travel to HQ up to 4 times a year. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member's core role may be performed either remote or onsite at a Target location depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target.
Benefits Eligibility
Please paste this url into your preferred browser to learn about benefits eligibility for this role: https://tgt.biz/BenefitsForYou_D
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.
Application deadline is: 05/01/2026
INTRODUCTION
The pay range is $98,000.00 - $176,000.00. Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.
About us:
Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
As a Senior Engineer, you serve as a specialist in the engineering team that supports the product. You help develop and gain insight in the application architecture. You can distill an abstract architecture into concrete design and influence the implementation. You show expertise in applying the appropriate software engineering patterns to build robust and scalable systems. You are an expert in programming and apply your skills in developing the product. You have the skills to design and implement the architecture on your own, but choose to influence your fellow engineers by proposing software designs, providing feedback on software designs and/or implementation. You show good problem solving skills and can help the team in triaging operational issues. You leverage your expertise in eliminating repeat occurrences. We also embrace AI-assisted development and Generative AI tools to enhance productivity, creativity, and developer experience across our engineering teams. You’ll have opportunities to experiment, innovate, and influence how Target engineers build the next generation of retail technology.
Flagship Mobile Apps:
Work on the team that brings Target guests their “shopping and saving sidekick” – the guest-facing Target Android and iOS shopping app.
iOS Platform Team:
This position is for the iOS Platform team within Flagship Mobile Apps at Target. As a team, we enjoy tackling big problems in a large and complex iOS codebase. We are continually assessing new iOS technologies and building on our vision for keeping Target’s iOS app stable, fast, and a joy for others to code in. We love building things for other engineers, and we get joy in knowing other iOS engineers can do their job more effectively due to our contributions. If any of this excites you, we would love to have you join us!
As a Senior iOS Engineer on the Mobile Platform team, you will:
- Help advance our architecture and abstractions, allowing our code to continue to scale and empowering feature teams to deliver with ever increasing autonomy.
- Drive adoption of modern Swift Concurrency (async/await, structured concurrency, actors) to improve safety, readability, and performance.
- Improve and maintain our mobile apps CI and CD infrastructure and pipelines.
- Develop clean, well-tested code to deliver functionality that meets the broader engineering team’s needs.
- Build and maintain developer tools to help our feature teams work effectively.
- Develop libraries and foundations in areas such as build tools, testing, analytics, networking, and logging.
- Solicit feedback from the development team to help drive a great overall developer experience.
- Mentor junior engineers to provide guidance on coding and design best practices for iOS apps.
- Provide high level tooling support to feature team engineers during work hours.
Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 4 year degree or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of professional software development experience
- 3+ years of experience developing apps for iOS
- Experience developing in Swift
- Experience with test-driven development and software test automation
- Excellent debugging, performance and optimization skills
- Experience with distributing mobile applications via public app stores and/or enterprise channels
- Experience with integrating calls to backend services (REST or GraphQL, JSON, etc.)
- Excellent hands-on skills with iOS application development tools including Xcode
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
If you have experience with any of the following, it’s a bonus, but not required for the job. If working on a team that does these things and getting to learn them on the job sounds exciting, that is great too!
- Expertise in Apple development, tools, and frameworks
- Integrating with third party frameworks, tools, and SDKs
- Reactive Programming
- Dependency injection
- Common iOS architectures (MVC, MVVM, The Composable Architecture)
- Experience with authenticated session using OAuth and authenticated tokens
- Accessibility experience
- Continuous delivery in mobile, including Test- or Behavior-Driven Design, code review, static analysis, continuous integration, automation and functional testing.
- Experience with build systems on highly modularized apps (xcodebuild, Tuist, Fastlane, Swift Package Manager, Bazel etc.)
- Static and dynamic analyzers (Danger, SwiftLint, SwiftFormat, etc.)
- Code generators (SwiftGen)
- Experience with SwiftUI and building Design Systems libraries
- AI-assisted coding, developer productivity tools
This position may be considered for a Remote or Hybrid (known internally at Target as "Flex for Your Day") work arrangement based on Target's needs. A Remote work arrangement means the team member works full-time from home or an alternate location that's not a Target location, does not have a desk at a Target location and may travel to HQ up to 4 times a year. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member's core role may be performed either remote or onsite at a Target location depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target.
Benefits Eligibility
Please paste this url into your preferred browser to learn about benefits eligibility for this role: https://tgt.biz/BenefitsForYou_D
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.
Application deadline is: 05/01/2026
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding TN Visa Sponsorship as an iOS Engineer
Frame your credentials around specialty occupation
Your degree transcript and job offer letter both need to establish that iOS engineering requires theoretical and practical computer science knowledge. A generic "software developer" offer letter has been flagged at the border. Get your employer to specify Swift, UIKit, or Xcode-based development explicitly.
Target employers experienced with visa sponsorship
Companies experienced with visa sponsorship understand the paperwork requirements and won't stall at HR. Filter your job search by employers with recent visa filings, since they've already invested in understanding work visa processes. For TN roles, your employer will prepare a support letter at the time of hire—a straightforward process that experienced sponsors handle smoothly. If you're Canadian, you'll present it at the U.S. border or port of entry; if you're Mexican, you'll apply at a U.S. consulate.
Prepare a Canadian border crossing package
Canadian citizens present their TN packet directly to CBP at a port of entry or pre-clearance site, so your documents need to be complete before you travel. Bring your degree, the employer's support letter, and your job offer in a single organized packet so the officer can adjudicate on the spot.
Use Migrate Mate to find TN-eligible engineering roles
Search iOS Engineer jobs at employers with recent visa filings through Migrate Mate, which surfaces roles that may qualify for TN status based on job requirements and employer experience with visa sponsorship. This helps you focus on companies already familiar with navigating work visa processes and documentation requirements.
Clarify the Computer Systems Analyst classification upfront
iOS Engineer isn't a TN category by name. Your employer must frame your role under Computer Systems Analyst in the offer letter. Raise this during the offer stage, not after you've accepted, so HR can draft the support letter correctly from the start.
Account for Mexican nationals' consular timeline
Mexican citizens must schedule a visa interview at a U.S. consulate, which adds weeks to the process compared to Canadian border entry. Build that consular appointment lead time into your start date negotiation with the employer so your entry isn't delayed after signing the offer.
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Does an iOS Engineer role qualify for TN visa status?
Yes, but the role must be classified under the Computer Systems Analyst TN category. The offer letter needs to describe duties involving software analysis, design, and development requiring a computer science or related degree. A title alone doesn't determine eligibility. The actual job duties and educational requirements outlined in the offer letter are what CBP or the consular officer reviews.
How does the TN visa compare to H-1B for iOS Engineers?
TN status has no lottery, no annual cap for Canadians, and can be obtained at the border in a single day for Canadian citizens. H-1B requires a lottery registration in March with an October 1 start date at the earliest if selected. For an iOS Engineer with Canadian citizenship and a qualifying job offer, TN is faster and more predictable than waiting out the H-1B lottery cycle.
Where can I find iOS Engineer jobs that already support TN visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lists iOS Engineer positions from employers that have confirmed they can support TN visa sponsorship under the USMCA. This is more targeted than broad job searches where you'd need to vet each employer's sponsorship capacity individually. Filtering by TN-eligible roles from the start saves time and avoids offers that fall through at the visa stage.
Can I switch iOS Engineer employers while on TN status?
Yes, but you can't start work with a new employer until your new TN petition is approved. Canadian citizens can apply at the border with a new employer's support letter before their last day at the current job. Mexican citizens need a new consular appointment. There's no grace period that allows you to begin work in between, so timing your transition matters.
What documents does my employer need to provide for my TN application as an iOS Engineer?
Your employer must supply a detailed support letter on company letterhead that states your job title, the specific TN category being claimed (Computer Systems Analyst), your duties, your start date, your educational qualifications, and confirmation that you'll be employed rather than self-employed. A vague or templated letter is one of the most common reasons TN applications are questioned at the border or consulate.
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