Software development · Charlotte, NC
Software development for Charlotte companies
Your lending or servicing system has outlived three teams, and the change the business wants is stuck until you hire engineers who understand it. Our senior engineers join your team, work in your codebase and put policy checks in front of every change instead of piecing them together from logs afterwards. The bank towers along Tryon Street hold software to that standard, and so does a distributor's ordering platform along I-85.
Founded
2017, and still independent
Bench
115+ engineers, 80 Databricks-certified
Experience
Fifteen years average, per engineer
Serving
Charlotte, Concord, Gastonia, Rock Hill
Charlotte is the second-largest banking centre in the United States by assets, with energy and a growing fintech layer around it, and the buying culture is conservative, audit-first and unimpressed by a demo. If that describes your company, it describes how we build.
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 software development covers
Web applications
Applications built to be changed safely years after the original team has moved on. That means tests that mean something, seams where the business logic can move, and a deployment nobody is afraid of.
Mobile applications
iOS and Android, built as products rather than as ports. The maintenance story is decided at the start, while it is still cheap.
APIs and integration
The seams between systems, done once and properly. Most of the expensive failures we are called into are integration failures wearing another name.
Data platforms
The layer underneath the application, on Databricks, Azure, AWS or Google Cloud. If the reporting and the application disagree, the platform is the reason.
Modernisation of what exists
Often the work arrives as something already built that has become hard to change. We would rather read it and tell you honestly whether it is worth keeping than sell a rewrite you may not need.
Durable, auditable workflows
Processes that take days, call several systems and must never half-complete. Getting that right is a different discipline from getting a request handler right, and it is where we spend most of our time.
App development in Charlotte
Banking apps in this market are judged by the audit first and the interface second. We build both, with policy evaluated before the request runs and an event trail that reconstructs every change rather than approximating it.
Mobile app developmentDynamics 365 consultants in Charlotte
Charlotte's manufacturers and energy contractors, the motorsports engineering shops around Concord and Mooresville, and the firms serving the banks in Uptown run Dynamics 365 Business Central and CRM under the same audit expectations as the lenders they work with. We implement both with approval workflows in Power Automate and reporting in Power BI that reconcile to the ledger without a spreadsheet in between.
The regulator asks about the model
Bank of America and Truist both keep their headquarters in Charlotte, and banks of that size answer to SR 26-2, the model risk guidance the Federal Reserve, the OCC and the FDIC issued in April 2026 to replace SR 11-7. It takes a risk-based approach tailored to each bank's model risk profile, and at a bank this size the automated credit and fraud decisions are the ones model risk looks at first.
Model risk should see an AI system in its first month, as its first real audience. A model that can't show what it was given, what it decided and which version decided it will draw a finding, and that record can't be added later to a system that never kept it. So we won't ship a decision path without it, even in a pilot.
Before any code, we write the documents your validators will ask for anyway. They set out what the model is for, where its inputs come from, its known limits and how its output will be monitored, written with your model risk team in the room. Then every decision logs its inputs, its version and its outcome, and validation starts with the evidence already there.
Clients we have done this for
The iLending work automated lead and loan officer assignment, rate sheet processing and stipulation document management, and improved CRM integration and API performance. Manual errors dropped and agent onboarding got faster, which is what a bank's lending operations team wants from automation sitting on the path of a credit decision.
Automotive / Fintech
iLending
iLending's new loan application had stalled with another developer, running late, over budget and short of features, while call center agents kept turning refinance leads into loans by hand. TechFabric's engineers picked the project up, reviewed what had been built, and rebuilt the app day to day alongside iLending's own developers, automating lead and loan officer assignment, rate sheets and stipulation documents. Manual errors dropped and new agents got productive faster.
How an engagement runs
01
A technical conversation
Not a sales call. An engineer, asking what you are trying to do, what has been tried and what it will actually take. Where the work needs them, product and design people join the same conversation.
02
Two weeks, fixed fee
A short assessment ending in a written plan with a scope, a sequence and a number. You own the document whether or not you carry on with us.
03
Build with your team in the repo
Senior throughout, and no pyramid with one architect over a floor of juniors. The person in your standup is the person writing the code.
04
Run it
We stay on the pager. Nobody designs a fragile thing they will personally be woken by, which is most of why this arrangement produces different software.
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 Charlotte
Charlotte's developer groups, Java to Clojure
The Charlotte Java User Group meets every one to three months at Pinnacle Solutions Group off Old Pineville Road, lately for talks on AI agents and MCP, and holds a hackathon each year. Charlotte Devs is the social one, meeting at breweries such as Gilde, while Charlotte Cloud Computing, about 2,300 members, runs evening AWS sessions. Clojure/Conj, the language's annual conference, has been at the Charlotte Convention Center for the last two years.
That Java group's turn towards agents and MCP is the right conversation for an older servicing or lending system. Putting an agent next to Java that has outlived several teams is safe only if the agent goes through the same checked actions a person would, with policy evaluated before anything writes. That's how we'd wire it, and it's a reasonable thing to ask any team to demonstrate on your own code.
The Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia metro area. North Carolina: Anson, Cabarrus, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Rowan and Union counties. South Carolina: Chester, Lancaster and York counties.
Lighter shape: the city itself. Dot: downtown. County boundaries from the US Census Bureau, 2023.
User group · Every one to three months, weekday evenings
Charlotte Java User Group
Evening talks on Java and software design have moved lately to AI agents and MCP, useful for a bank weighing how agents reach its Java services.
Volunteer organisers. Pinnacle Solutions Group, 5800 Old Pineville Rd, Suite 202.
Meetup · A few evenings a year
Charlotte Cloud Computing
Membership is by request and the sessions go deep on AWS infrastructure, the right room before deciding how a new platform should be hosted.
Volunteer organisers, with the AWS Charlotte User Group. Charlotte, location shared with members.
User group · Several events a year
GDG Charlotte (Google Developer Group Charlotte)
A recent panel on Android app quality and Google Play is the kind of session a team shipping a customer-facing banking app should hear.
Google Developer Groups volunteers, partnered with UNC Charlotte. Rotates between UNC Charlotte's campuses and CLT Startup House, 1717 Cleveland Ave.
Meetup · Every one to two months, weekday evenings
Charlotte Devs
Mostly brewery socials, an easy, low-pressure way to get a feel for the developers working around the city.
Volunteer organisers. Rotates between local breweries and offices, such as Gilde Brewery.
University · Ongoing degree programmes
M.S. in Artificial Intelligence and M.S. in Computer Science, UNC Charlotte College of Computing and Informatics
UNC Charlotte's computing college runs the state's first graduate AI programme beside its computer science MS, both feeding the local hiring pool.
UNC Charlotte College of Computing and Informatics. UNC Charlotte, University City; some evening classes at the Dubois Center.
More in Charlotte (1)
- Clojure/Conj
The annual conference for the Clojure programming language, first held in 2010, with workshops and two days of talks. The 2027 city hasn't been announced.
Annual, usually late September or early October. Charlotte Convention Center, 501 S College St (2025 and 2026).
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
Software development in Charlotte: common questions
Do you work with Charlotte companies?
Yes, and with companies across the United States. Arizona does not observe daylight saving, so we are two hours behind you from November to March and three hours behind from March to November. That leaves most of your afternoon overlapping our morning, which is usually enough.
Do you have an office in Charlotte?
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.
How do you handle model risk management?
An automated decision records what it was given, what it decided and under whose authority, because a bank's model risk team will ask for exactly that, whatever the regulators' guidance says is in scope. Explainability is designed in, since a system that did not record its reasoning cannot have it added later.
What kinds of custom software do you build?
Web applications, mobile applications, APIs and the data platforms underneath them. The work we do best is the sort that has to be governed and auditable, where a wrong write is expensive and somebody has to be able to explain afterwards what changed and why.
Do you take over an existing codebase?
Often, yes. A good part of the work arrives as something already built that has become hard to change. We would rather read it and tell you honestly whether it is worth keeping than sell you a rewrite you may not need.
Where to go deeper
Web application development
Applications that hold up on the thousandth day
Mobile application development
iOS and Android, built to be maintained
Ecommerce development
The storefront and the ERP behind it
APIs and integration
The seams between systems, done once
Published work
Named clients and checkable outcomes
Also in Charlotte
What else we build for Charlotte companies.
AI consulting and development in Charlotte
The pilot works, and it's been parked since model risk asked how anyone would audit it, while your engineers went back to the roadmap.
Databricks consulting in Charlotte
A Teradata or SQL Server estate with decades of inputs nobody dares retire won't migrate until someone can show the lineage of every number.
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