Jobs / United States / Lyft INC
Senior Software Engineer - iOS
Lyft INC · 🇺🇸 San Francisco, CA
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 75 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 99 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 Lyft INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles22 certified filings for “Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in CA: $150k–$188k, median $164k. Most were filed at wage level II (55%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% 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).
A verdict summarises public evidence; it is not legal advice and never a guarantee — the employer and the immigration authority decide. Sign in to factor in where you can already work.
Or apply yourself on the official page →
Sponsor Radar — Lyft INC
The US Department of Labor certified 75 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 99 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
Past sponsorship or register membership never guarantees sponsorship for this vacancy or for you. Full Sponsor Radar for Lyft INC →
About the role
At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. Our Client Infrastructure team is dedicated to building software that addresses challenges at a large scale, ensuring that our mobile applications are stable, scalable, and efficient. As a Mobile Engineer on the Mobile Foundations team, you will create and maintain foundational systems that all Lyft mobile engineers rely on, enabling teams across Lyft to deliver rich experiences that connect people and places. You will build scalable infrastructure, helping developers move fast and innovate, while ensuring Lyft's mobile developer experience remains at the forefront. Your work will have a multiplicative effect across Engineering and contribute directly to Lyft's overall stability. Our apps are used by millions of people, and we take great pride in our work, which means adhering to excellent development practices, careful code architecture, and an organization built around rapid releases. Our codebase is written entirely in Swift, utilizing modern design patterns and coding standards. We rely on third-party libraries and actively contribute back to the community, including the Swift language itself. Who are you: • You are an enthusiastic and experienced mobile developer looking to use your engineering skills to improve developers’ ability to ship new features quickly. • You get excited about new Swift features and compile improvements. • You find delight in building the foundations and frameworks to accelerate the development of others, hiding away the complexities of the system. • You are a diplomat who looks at the landscape and aligns engineers from different teams around a common pattern. • You are excited about scaling millions of lines of Swift code to hundreds of mobile developers. • You take initiative to identify and improve processes and solve problems proactively. • You take pride in writing clean, maintainable, and scalable code with well-designed APIs, prioritizing clear design principles for reliability. • You are passionate about collaborating with other teams and helping / supporting other iOS engineers. Responsibilities: • Develop and maintain reliable mobile infrastructure, including networking, architecture, and UI frameworks ( Lyft Product Language and DeclarativeUI library), to enable Lyft iOS engineers to deliver high-quality mobile experiences. • Collaborate with cross-functional partners (designers, Android engineers, Web engineers, and other Mobile Infrastructure teams) to strategically define the future of mobile UI and architecture, ensuring an innovative mobile developer experience at Lyft. • Support iOS engineers from across the organization as they use the tools we build and leverage these interactions to improve our roadmaps and offerings. • Bring new ideas to the table that aim to ease developer friction and keep our codebase joyful to develop in while continuously improving the codebase through refactoring. • Stay current with iOS development and contribute to open-source projects like the Mobile Native Foundation and Hammer. Experience: • Code Quality: Experienced in delivering high-quality code. • Experience working with designers and on internal developer productivity teams or projects. • Strong experience with Swift. • Experience with UIKit, declarative UI development and creating shared components. • Familiarity with current design and prototyping tools (Figma, etc). • Ability to work with a low-ego, highly collaborative, cross-functional team. • Excited about working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. • You take pride in writing clean, maintainable, and scalable code, prioritizing clear design princ