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Staff iOS Software Engineer, Bitcoin
Block INC · 🇺🇸 Bay Area, CA, United States of America
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 111 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 120 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Block INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles3 certified filings for “Senior iOS Engineer, Banking” (Software Developers) in TX: $170k–$270k, median $220k. Most were filed at wage level IV (67%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 111 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 120 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
The Team Bitcoin at Block builds products and platforms that help make bitcoin, stablecoins, and non-custodial wallets accessible to people around the world. We work across Cash App, Square, and Bitkey to create secure, reliable, high-quality mobile and hardware experiences used by millions of people. We’re looking for an iOS engineer who loves building products and can move quickly through unfamiliar problems. You’ll work closely with product, design, and engineering partners to turn complex financial capabilities into clear, reliable customer experiences. The Role As a Staff iOS Engineer on Bitcoin, you will own the technical direction and delivery of a critical area of our iOS product experience with bitcoin and stablecoin. This is a hands-on role: you’ll prototype new ideas, make architectural decisions, write production code, and lead work through launch and ongoing improvement. The work extends beyond the client. You’ll align product requirements with backend capabilities, resolve dependencies with partner teams, and make tradeoffs across customer experience, delivery speed, security, and reliability. You’ll personally tackle the hardest design and implementation problems while helping other engineers contribute effectively. Your impact will come from shipping valuable products and making the next release better: fewer recurring problems, clearer interfaces, stronger testing, and practices the team can use independently. You Will Build and evolve the iOS product • Build products in iOS related to bitcoin, stablecoin and non custodial wallets. • Work across interfaces in Cash App, Square and Bitkey. • Own complex features end to end, including client architecture, service integration, testing, rollout, and post-launch improvements. • Work with product and design to shape customer journeys, prototype new interactions, and turn open questions into delivery plans. • Build prototypes, reference implementations, and critical paths that prove a direction before broader adoption. • Contribute bitcoin and stablecoin technology to open source when it creates value for the broader community. • Influence the technical direction within the product area, making explicit tradeoffs and sequencing dependencies with adjacent teams. • Improve architecture and shared components where they make product development faster, safer, or more consistent. • Build automated testing, observability, and safe rollout practices into delivery, with security, privacy, and compliance safeguards appropriate to the risks. Lead as an AI-fluent engineer • Integrate AI-assisted development tools into daily workflows to drive leverage across bitcoin engineering. • Evaluate emerging tools and practices, building durable, AI-powered capabilities where they add clear value. • Verify AI-assisted outputs and ensure high standards for software quality, security, and reliability. • Contribute to codebases beyond your iOS specialty. Make the team more effective • Operate beyond your immediate team to identify and address cross-cutting technical problems. • Lead architecture and design reviews across team boundaries. • Surface systemic risks before they become customer, seller, or engineering problems. • Mentor engineers through design discussions, code reviews, and structured guidance that helps them take on greater ownership. • Help set technical standards that improve the quality and velocity of iOS development over time. Collaborate broadly • Partner with engineers, product managers, designers, and engineering leaders to align technical investments with product needs. • Work with Android, web, and backend engineers to improve shared product foundations and cross-platform experiences. • Represent bitcoin iOS in cross-team and company-wide t