Jobs · Engineering · Texas

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.

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