Senior Mobile Developer Jobs in USA with Visa Sponsorship
Senior Mobile Developer roles rank among the most consistently sponsored positions in U.S. tech. Employers file H-1B visa and O-1 visa petitions for iOS and Android engineers at high rates, and the specialty occupation standard is straightforward to meet with a computer science or related degree. For detailed occupation requirements, see the O*NET profile.
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Get Access To All JobsThis role is four days onsite at our Seneca One Buffalo, NY location, with the flexibility to work from home one day per week.
Overview:
We are seeking a Senior Mobile Developer to join our mobile engineering team focused on delivering secure, scalable, and user-friendly banking applications. This role is ideal for an experienced mobile engineer with strong expertise in either Android or iOS development, with preference given to candidates who have experience across both platforms.
The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience building enterprise-grade mobile applications, preferably within banking, fintech, or other regulated industries. They will possess a strong understanding of secure mobile development practices, automated testing, modern development frameworks, and the ability to work independently with minimal supervision while contributing to technical leadership within the team.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain mobile applications for banking and financial services on Android and/or iOS platforms.
- Build high-quality native applications using Android technologies (Java, Kotlin) and/or iOS technologies (Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, Objective-C).
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, architects, backend engineers, and other cross-functional partners to deliver exceptional customer experiences.
- Experience implementing secure mobile applications, including secure credential/token handling, encryption, certificate/network security, biometric authentication, secure local storage, protection of sensitive data, and secure API communication.
- Familiarity with mobile application security principles and common mobile threats, including OWASP Mobile Application Security / MASVS concepts.
- Experience integrating mobile applications with RESTful APIs and backend services, including authentication, error handling, caching, serialization, and resilient network communication.
- Develop and maintain automated tests to ensure application reliability, performance, and maintainability.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues using application logs, crash data, diagnostics, and performance analysis, with emphasis on root-cause identification and preventative remediation.
- Work autonomously, managing priorities and delivering results in a fast-paced environment.
- Mentor engineers, conduct code and design reviews, and contribute to technical leadership, architecture decisions, engineering standards, and mobile development best practices.
- Stay current with mobile development trends, frameworks, tools, and emerging technologies across Android and iOS ecosystems.
- Design, improve, and support CI/CD pipelines, build automation, code-quality controls, and mobile application release processes.
- Understand and adhere to the Company's risk and regulatory standards, policies, and controls in accordance with the Company's Risk Appetite. Identify risk-related issues requiring escalation to management.
- Promote an environment that supports a culture of belonging and reflects the M&T Bank brand.
- Monitor and improve application performance, stability, startup time, memory utilization, responsiveness, and production reliability.
- Maintain internal control standards, including timely implementation of audit findings and remediation activities.
- Complete other related duties as assigned.
Tech Stack:
- Native mobile architecture
- Secure coding
- REST APIs
- Testing
- CI/CD
- Git/source control
- Accessibility
- Performance/reliability
- Production troubleshooting
- Architecture/design patterns
- Mentoring/code reviews
- Android Specialization
- Android SDK / Android platform APIs
- Kotlin Coroutines and Flow
- Jetpack libraries
- Dependency injection such as Hilt/Dagger
- Gradle
- Application lifecycle and state management
- Jetpack Compose
- Java/XML modernization where relevant
- iOS Specialization
- iOS SDK/frameworks
- Swift Concurrency (async/await)
- Combine where applicable
- Swift Package Manager
- Cocoa Touch/Foundation
- Application lifecycle/state management
- SwiftUI
- UIKit
- Objective-C interoperability/migration
Education and Experience Required:
- Associate’s degree and a minimum of 5 years’ systems analysis and/or application development work experience or Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 3 years’ systems analysis and/or application development work experience. In lieu of degree, a combined minimum of 7 years’ education and/or relevant work experience, including a minimum of 3 years’ systems analysis and/or application development work experience.
- Advanced proficiency in minimum of 1 relevant programming language.
Education and Experience Preferred:
- Experience working in banking, fintech, or other highly regulated industries.
- Demonstrated experience designing and evolving modular mobile application architectures with clear separation of concerns, maintainability, testability, and scalability. Experience with architecture patterns such as MVVM, MVI, Clean Architecture, or comparable patterns.
- Experience with automated testing frameworks such as:
- Android: Espresso, JUnit, Mockito
- iOS: XCTest, Quick, Nimble
- Familiarity with secure mobile development practices, including encryption, secure storage, biometric authentication, and application security controls.
- Experience developing applications on both Android and iOS platforms.
- Experience with modern UI frameworks such as Jetpack Compose and/or SwiftUI.
- Familiarity with modern build systems and development tooling.
- Experience with platform-specific build and dependency-management tooling such as Gradle on Android and Swift Package Manager/Tuist on iOS.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and automated deployment processes.
- Knowledge of accessibility and compliance standards, including ADA and WCAG.
- Experience integrating with banking, payments, identity, fraud, or other financial-services APIs.
- Experience using mobile application monitoring, crash reporting, profiling, and performance-analysis tools.
- Published applications in the Google Play Store and/or Apple App Store.
- Experience leading technical initiatives, mentoring developers, and contributing to mobile architecture decisions.
M&T Bank is committed to fair, competitive, and market-informed pay for our employees. The pay range for this position is $97,100.00 - $161,800.00 Annual (USD). The successful candidate’s particular combination of knowledge, skills, and experience will inform their specific compensation.
Location
Buffalo, New York, United States of America
This role is four days onsite at our Seneca One Buffalo, NY location, with the flexibility to work from home one day per week.
Overview:
We are seeking a Senior Mobile Developer to join our mobile engineering team focused on delivering secure, scalable, and user-friendly banking applications. This role is ideal for an experienced mobile engineer with strong expertise in either Android or iOS development, with preference given to candidates who have experience across both platforms.
The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience building enterprise-grade mobile applications, preferably within banking, fintech, or other regulated industries. They will possess a strong understanding of secure mobile development practices, automated testing, modern development frameworks, and the ability to work independently with minimal supervision while contributing to technical leadership within the team.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain mobile applications for banking and financial services on Android and/or iOS platforms.
- Build high-quality native applications using Android technologies (Java, Kotlin) and/or iOS technologies (Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, Objective-C).
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, architects, backend engineers, and other cross-functional partners to deliver exceptional customer experiences.
- Experience implementing secure mobile applications, including secure credential/token handling, encryption, certificate/network security, biometric authentication, secure local storage, protection of sensitive data, and secure API communication.
- Familiarity with mobile application security principles and common mobile threats, including OWASP Mobile Application Security / MASVS concepts.
- Experience integrating mobile applications with RESTful APIs and backend services, including authentication, error handling, caching, serialization, and resilient network communication.
- Develop and maintain automated tests to ensure application reliability, performance, and maintainability.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues using application logs, crash data, diagnostics, and performance analysis, with emphasis on root-cause identification and preventative remediation.
- Work autonomously, managing priorities and delivering results in a fast-paced environment.
- Mentor engineers, conduct code and design reviews, and contribute to technical leadership, architecture decisions, engineering standards, and mobile development best practices.
- Stay current with mobile development trends, frameworks, tools, and emerging technologies across Android and iOS ecosystems.
- Design, improve, and support CI/CD pipelines, build automation, code-quality controls, and mobile application release processes.
- Understand and adhere to the Company's risk and regulatory standards, policies, and controls in accordance with the Company's Risk Appetite. Identify risk-related issues requiring escalation to management.
- Promote an environment that supports a culture of belonging and reflects the M&T Bank brand.
- Monitor and improve application performance, stability, startup time, memory utilization, responsiveness, and production reliability.
- Maintain internal control standards, including timely implementation of audit findings and remediation activities.
- Complete other related duties as assigned.
Tech Stack:
- Native mobile architecture
- Secure coding
- REST APIs
- Testing
- CI/CD
- Git/source control
- Accessibility
- Performance/reliability
- Production troubleshooting
- Architecture/design patterns
- Mentoring/code reviews
- Android Specialization
- Android SDK / Android platform APIs
- Kotlin Coroutines and Flow
- Jetpack libraries
- Dependency injection such as Hilt/Dagger
- Gradle
- Application lifecycle and state management
- Jetpack Compose
- Java/XML modernization where relevant
- iOS Specialization
- iOS SDK/frameworks
- Swift Concurrency (async/await)
- Combine where applicable
- Swift Package Manager
- Cocoa Touch/Foundation
- Application lifecycle/state management
- SwiftUI
- UIKit
- Objective-C interoperability/migration
Education and Experience Required:
- Associate’s degree and a minimum of 5 years’ systems analysis and/or application development work experience or Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 3 years’ systems analysis and/or application development work experience. In lieu of degree, a combined minimum of 7 years’ education and/or relevant work experience, including a minimum of 3 years’ systems analysis and/or application development work experience.
- Advanced proficiency in minimum of 1 relevant programming language.
Education and Experience Preferred:
- Experience working in banking, fintech, or other highly regulated industries.
- Demonstrated experience designing and evolving modular mobile application architectures with clear separation of concerns, maintainability, testability, and scalability. Experience with architecture patterns such as MVVM, MVI, Clean Architecture, or comparable patterns.
- Experience with automated testing frameworks such as:
- Android: Espresso, JUnit, Mockito
- iOS: XCTest, Quick, Nimble
- Familiarity with secure mobile development practices, including encryption, secure storage, biometric authentication, and application security controls.
- Experience developing applications on both Android and iOS platforms.
- Experience with modern UI frameworks such as Jetpack Compose and/or SwiftUI.
- Familiarity with modern build systems and development tooling.
- Experience with platform-specific build and dependency-management tooling such as Gradle on Android and Swift Package Manager/Tuist on iOS.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and automated deployment processes.
- Knowledge of accessibility and compliance standards, including ADA and WCAG.
- Experience integrating with banking, payments, identity, fraud, or other financial-services APIs.
- Experience using mobile application monitoring, crash reporting, profiling, and performance-analysis tools.
- Published applications in the Google Play Store and/or Apple App Store.
- Experience leading technical initiatives, mentoring developers, and contributing to mobile architecture decisions.
M&T Bank is committed to fair, competitive, and market-informed pay for our employees. The pay range for this position is $97,100.00 - $161,800.00 Annual (USD). The successful candidate’s particular combination of knowledge, skills, and experience will inform their specific compensation.
Location
Buffalo, New York, United States of America
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Senior Mobile Developer
Target product companies over agencies
Product companies sponsor mobile developers for multi-year H-1B periods. Agencies and staffing firms often avoid sponsorship costs. Focus your search on companies shipping their own iOS or Android applications, where mobile engineering is central to the business.
Document your platform specialization clearly
USCIS approves H-1B petitions faster when the role has a clear technical scope. Specify whether you work in Swift, Kotlin, React Native, or Flutter. Employers who define the stack precisely write stronger specialty occupation letters and face fewer Requests for Evidence.
Highlight app-scale metrics in your resume
Sponsoring employers need to justify the petition investment. Concrete numbers help: daily active users, crash rate reductions, release cycle improvements. Quantified impact makes the role look indispensable, which strengthens both your offer negotiation and the visa petition narrative.
Understand your degree field matters as much as your degree level
A bachelor's in computer science, software engineering, or electrical engineering maps cleanly to Senior Mobile Developer roles. Degrees in unrelated fields create specialty occupation risk. If your degree is adjacent, gather evidence of coursework or certifications that bridge the gap before applying.
Ask about sponsorship timeline early, not at offer stage
H-1B cap-subject petitions are filed in April for an October start. If you need status before October, confirm whether the employer will file for cap-exempt processing or use premium processing. Raising this before the offer avoids late-stage surprises that derail start dates.
Use Migrate Mate to find verified sponsoring employers
Not every company that posts a Senior Mobile Developer role will sponsor. Migrate Mate filters for employers who have sponsored foreign workers before, saving you time on outreach to companies that will decline the moment visa status comes up in screening.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Senior Mobile Developer a qualifying specialty occupation for the H-1B?
Yes. Senior Mobile Developer roles consistently meet the H-1B visa specialty occupation standard because they require at least a bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a directly related field. USCIS has a long record of approving H-1B petitions for software development roles, and mobile engineering is not treated differently from backend or full-stack positions. The key is that the job description specifies degree-level knowledge in a relevant technical discipline.
What visa options exist for Senior Mobile Developers beyond the H-1B?
Australian citizens can use the E-3 visa, which has no lottery and renews indefinitely in two-year increments. Canadian and Mexican nationals qualify for TN visa status under USMCA as software engineers. Developers with a strong publication record, open-source contributions, or industry recognition may qualify for the O-1A. Each path has different employer obligations, processing times, and renewal rules, so the right choice depends on your nationality and career profile.
Does experience substitute for a degree when applying for H-1B sponsorship as a mobile developer?
It can, but it requires more work from both you and the employer. USCIS allows three years of specialized experience to substitute for one year of education, meaning you would need roughly 12 years of relevant experience to replace a four-year degree entirely. In practice, employers must document this equivalency carefully, often with an expert opinion letter. Many employers prefer candidates with a degree specifically to avoid this added petition complexity.
How likely is H-1B approval for a Senior Mobile Developer role?
Approval rates for software development occupations have historically exceeded 85% once a petition reaches USCIS adjudication. The bigger variable is lottery selection, not petition quality. In recent fiscal years, selection rates have been around 25% for general registrations. Employers can improve odds by filing in multiple years or pursuing cap-exempt options. Premium processing, which costs extra but guarantees a 15-business-day decision, does not affect approval likelihood but eliminates uncertainty once selected.
Where can I find Senior Mobile Developer jobs that offer visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for international job seekers and lists Senior Mobile Developer roles from employers with a verified history of sponsoring work visas. Generic job boards mix sponsored and non-sponsored postings with no way to filter, which wastes time during what is often an urgent job search. Migrate Mate surfaces roles where sponsorship is a real option from the start.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Senior Mobile Developer jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.