App development · Dallas, TX
App development for Dallas companies
Dallas and Fort Worth hold one of the densest corporate headquarters concentrations in the country, weighted towards telecom, banking, insurance and the logistics that follow a central location.
Founded
2017, and still independent
Bench
115+ people, 80 Databricks-certified
Experience
Fifteen years average, per engineer
Serving
Dallas, Fort Worth, Plano, Irving
Dallas is the largest app development market on our map, and most of the demand is corporate: a customer app, a field service app and the internal tools behind them, integrated with a large estate. We build the app and the integration layer as one project, because integration is where these builds fail.
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.
Clients we have done this for
SWBC is a diversified financial services group. Enterprise scale, multiple lines of business, one governed platform.
Automotive / Fintech
SWBC
TechFabric rebuilt SWBC's LOSExpress platform for credit unions: the user experience, the design system, and the front-end architecture.
Integration is where the risk sits
A headquarters estate is a decade of acquisitions and the seams between them. Most of the failures we are called into are integration failures, and the governance question is usually which system is allowed to write.
None of that is unusual for Dallas, 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
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.
Headquarters
1530 E Williams Field Rd, Ste 201Gilbert, AZ 85295
Phone
+1 (480) 681-6806Also
Amsterdam, Dnipro, Hyderabad
Working hours
Dallas business hours, most days
FAQ
App development in Dallas: common questions
Do you work with Dallas 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 Dallas?
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 have systems from four acquisitions. Can you work with that?
That is most of what the work is. The first question is which system is allowed to write, because an estate with several answers to that is an estate that disagrees with itself. We would rather read what exists and tell you honestly what is worth keeping.
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.
App development elsewhere
Other metros we publish this for. The full list is here.