Digital Banking Developer
First Financial Bank Texas · Abilene, TX · 2 wk ago
EngineeringFull-time
Job Description
Office Location: Abilene, Texas, United States
This is an in-office position.
Scope/Contacts
The purpose of this role is to develop and support digital banking solutions that improve customer experience, expand self-service capabilities, strengthen integration across systems, and enable reliable delivery of digital enhancements across the bank’s mobile and online platforms.
Essential Functions
- Design, develop, configure, and support digital banking enhancements across mobile banking, online banking, and related digital services.
- Build and maintain custom functionality, integrations, and solution components using approved development tools, APIs, SDKs, and platform-supported technologies.
- Translate business requirements, user stories, and journey improvement needs into practical technical solutions.
- Partner with the Digital Solutions Lead to evaluate options, estimate effort, and align technical design to business priorities and customer needs.
- Work closely with the Digital Platform Lead to ensure technical changes are aligned with platform configuration, release schedules, upgrade requirements, and operational controls.
- Support custom development and integration needs related to account servicing, money movement, alerts, card controls, authentication, digital account opening, self-service, and other digital capabilities.
- Develop and maintain integrations between the digital banking platform, core systems, authentication tools, third-party providers, and other connected systems.
- Participate in solution design, technical analysis, coding, unit testing, integration testing, defect remediation, and implementation support.
- Partner with the Digital QA / Release Analyst to support testing, defect reproduction, defect resolution, and release validation.
- Assist in troubleshooting production issues, diagnosing root causes, and implementing fixes for custom development and integration-related problems.
- Support post-release validation and production stabilization efforts following digital platform changes.
- Contribute to technical documentation, support materials, implementation notes, and development standards.
- Maintain awareness of platform constraints, vendor capabilities, development standards, and security requirements relevant to digital banking.
- Ensure development work aligns with security, compliance, accessibility, and reliability expectations for a regulated banking environment.
- Serve as the primary technical contributor for custom digital enhancements and solution development.
- Provide technical input into planning, prioritization, feasibility discussions, and implementation decisions.
- Collaborate effectively across solutions, platform, QA, analytics, operations, and vendor teams.
- Support a disciplined and well-documented approach to development, testing, and release readiness.
- Contribute to continuous improvement in development practices, technical stability, and digital delivery effectiveness.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
- Experience in software development, application development, integration development, or digital platform engineering.
- Experience working with APIs, web services, and system integrations.
- Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical teams.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in banking, fintech, or another regulated environment.
- Experience with digital banking platforms such as Q2 or similar consumer digital environments.
- Familiarity with mobile banking, online banking, transfers, bill pay, alerts, card controls, mobile deposit, authentication, and digital account opening.
- Experience supporting vendor-managed platforms and third-party technology partners.
- Experience with release cycles, testing support, and post-production issue resolution.
- Familiarity with secure development practices, accessibility standards, and digital customer experience considerations.