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App development · Austin, TX

App development for Austin companies

Austin is semiconductors and software in roughly equal measure, with a decade of corporate relocations layered on top and a startup base that has matured into companies with real compliance obligations.

Founded

2017, and still independent

Bench

115+ people, 80 Databricks-certified

Experience

Fifteen years average, per engineer

Serving

Austin, Round Rock, Cedar Park, San Marcos

Austin apps are usually version two: a product built fast by a startup that now has customers, compliance obligations and a team that did not write it. We take over what exists, make it safe to change, and ship the next version from the same repo.

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TechFabric 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.

Growth outruns the controls

Companies here tend to reach compliance obligations faster than they reach the headcount to service them. SOC 2 and the first enterprise security review arrive together, and a platform that already records its actions passes both without a project.

None of that is unusual for Austin, and none of it is a reason to build slowly. It is a reason to decide where the evidence comes from before the first handler is written, because the alternative is reconstructing it later from logs that were not designed to answer the question.

How an engagement runs

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

Talk to an engineer in Austin

Two weeks, fixed fee, and a written plan whether or not you build it with us.

Headquarters

1530 E Williams Field Rd, Ste 201
Gilbert, AZ 85295

Phone

+1 (480) 681-6806

Also

Amsterdam, Dnipro, Hyderabad

Working hours

Austin business hours, most days

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.