App development · Austin, TX
App development for Austin companies
Your app shipped fast and won real users, and now every release breaks something nobody still on the team wrote, so the launch you promised keeps sliding. We take over what exists, make it safe to change and ship the next version, with senior engineers who'll scale it. In Austin that's a SaaS product at the Domain, a field tool for a supplier to the Taylor chip fabs, or a clinic's booking app.
Founded
2017, and still independent
Bench
115+ engineers, 80 Databricks-certified
Experience
Fifteen years average, per engineer
Serving
Austin, Round Rock, Cedar Park, San Marcos
Semiconductors and software in roughly equal measure, a decade of corporate relocations, and a startup base that has grown into companies with real compliance obligations. If yours is one of them, you've probably shipped an AI feature already and now need it to be durable, measured and affordable.
AzureTechFabric is a Databricks partner with an award-winning Databricks engineering team, 80 of them Databricks-certified, and a Temporal partner. Where a system reaches past the workspace we build on Azure, AWS and Google Cloud.
What app development covers
iOS and Android
A shared codebase where it suits the product and native where it does not. It is a per-product decision rather than a house position, and anyone who answers it before hearing what the app does is telling you about themselves.
Web apps
The browser half of the same product, built to be changed safely years after the original team has moved on. Tests that mean something, seams where the business logic can move, a deployment nobody is afraid of.
The backend and API
Built with the app rather than found afterwards. Where you already have an API we will work with it and say plainly if it is the reason the app will feel slow.
Offline behaviour and sync
Decided deliberately at the start. A field app that has to work in a warehouse with no signal is a different design from one that assumes a connection, and retrofitting the difference means rewriting the data layer.
Release and store submission
Staged rollout so a bad build reaches a few hundred people rather than everyone, and the App Store and Play Store process including the rejections, which arrive for reasons that have nothing to do with code quality.
Keeping it alive
Two OS releases a year, certificates that expire while somebody is on holiday, and store policies that change. We stay on a maintenance footing or hand over with the provisioning and the release process written down.
Compliance arrives before the security hire
Austin's software companies tend to meet their compliance obligations before they've hired anyone to own them. The first enterprise deal brings a security questionnaire and a SOC 2 request together, and the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act has covered the personal data of Texas residents since 1 July 2024. The state attorney general enforces it, and gives a company 30 days to cure a violation before suing.
Screenshots and a spreadsheet of who approved what get most companies through their first audit, and the spreadsheet gets rebuilt the following year. We think evidence should come from the platform as it runs. Every deploy, grant and read of customer data gets recorded when it happens, so the platform already holds whatever sample the auditor picks, and deciding that up front costs days where retrofitting it costs a quarter.
We list the controls your auditor will test and trace each one to the event that proves it, then wire those events before touching features. Model calls get the same treatment, with the prompt version and cost logged per request, because enterprise security questionnaires have started asking how AI features are governed.
Clients we have done this for
Like many software companies, TotalLoop began as a cloud-native platform on Azure with its own CRM and a sales dashboard. It later moved off Cosmos DB and SQL Server onto Databricks Lakebase, converted with TechFabric Airlift and cut over in reversible waves, the careful way to change a database under a live product.
B2B ecommerce
DealerIQ
TotalLoop finds a dealership's customers with equity in their vehicle and matches them to cars on the lot. DealerIQ brought the idea and the dealership know-how, and our senior engineers worked inside its team to build it on Azure, test it with one dealer account and ship a lean first version. Later we moved it off Cosmos DB and SQL Server onto Databricks Lakebase, in waves that could each be rolled back.
How an engagement runs
01
A technical conversation
Not a sales call. An engineer, asking what the app has to do, who uses it, what it talks to and what has been tried. Product and design people join the same conversation where the work needs them.
02
Two weeks, fixed fee
A short assessment ending in a written plan with a scope, a sequence and a number, including the decisions that are cheap now and expensive later. You own the document whether or not you carry on with us.
03
Build with your team in the repo
App, backend and release process together, senior throughout. The person in your standup is the person writing the code.
04
Ship, and keep shipping
Staged rollout, store submission, and either a maintenance footing with us or a handover with the provisioning and release process written down. The handover version only works if it was planned before launch.
Two weeks, fixed fee, and a written plan whether or not you build it with us.
Tell an engineer what you want to build
A senior engineer reads it and replies within one business day, usually with the questions that decide the first two weeks.
Around Austin
Flutter nights at Capital Factory
Flutter Austin meets on the second Wednesday evening of each month at Capital Factory on Brazos Street, with members demoing apps they're shipping to phones, desktops and the web. GDG Austin uses the same building for sessions on Flutter, Google Cloud and AI tooling, so a developer in Austin can get both the client and the backend side of an app there.
An app on its second version usually has a mobile client nobody wants to touch and a backend that grew up around it. Before you hand that to a new team, send whoever owns it now to a Flutter Austin night and let them ask how others ran a rewrite while the old app stayed in the store. Their questions will make a better brief than the backlog does.
The Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos metro area. Texas: Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis and Williamson counties.
Lighter shape: the city itself. Dot: downtown. County boundaries from the US Census Bureau, 2023.
Meetup · Monthly, usually the second Wednesday evening
Flutter Austin
One codebase for mobile, desktop and web is the promise, and members presenting their own projects show where that promise strains.
Volunteer organisers. Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Downtown.
User group · Several events a year
GDG Austin (Google Developer Group Austin)
Flutter sessions sit beside Google Cloud ones, so a mobile team can see the app and its backend discussed in the same room.
Google Developer Groups volunteers. Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Downtown.
Meetup · Monthly, usually the first Saturday morning
Austin iPhone Developer Group
A monthly Saturday-morning coffee in Mueller where app developers give five-minute lightning talks, an easy way to hear what Austin's iOS developers are shipping before you brief one.
Volunteer organisers. ThoroughFare, 1905 Aldrich St, Mueller.
Each listing was checked on its organiser's own page on 12 October 2026. Dates and venues move, so the link is the source.
FAQ
App development in Austin: common questions
Do you work with Austin companies?
Yes, and with companies across the United States. Arizona does not observe daylight saving, so we are one hour behind you from November to March and two hours behind from March to November. A morning standup on your clock is still early afternoon on ours.
Do you have an office in Austin?
The office is in Gilbert, Arizona, with teams in Amsterdam, Dnipro and Hyderabad. Delivery is remote or hybrid, and we travel for discovery, workshops and the opening weeks of a build.
We need SOC 2 and our first enterprise security review at once.
A platform that already records who did what, under whose authority and when, turns both from a project into a document exercise. The work is deciding where evidence comes from before the first handler is written, which costs almost nothing then and a quarter afterwards.
Native or cross-platform?
Cross-platform for most business applications, native where the product depends on something the platform does specifically. It is a per-product decision, and we will say which we think applies once we have heard what the app does.
Do you handle App Store and Play Store submission?
Yes, including the rejections. First submissions get rejected for reasons that have nothing to do with code quality, and knowing which ones are coming is most of what makes a launch date real.
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App development elsewhere
The same work, in other metros. The full list is here.