Planning Center, established in 2006, has grown to support over 80,000 churches worldwide. As an independent company, we pride ourselves on being debt-free with no outside investors. Churches use our tools to communicate and connect with their congregations, organize information, and coordinate events. We’re committed to building great products that solve real problems using web and mobile products.
Our team enjoys the flexibility of remote work, utilizing tools like Asana, Slack, Notion, and Zoom for collaboration. We gather quarterly at our main office in Carlsbad, CA, fostering our work relationships.
About the Work
We’re seeking several Full Stack Developers experienced in Ruby on Rails and React. You’ll work on building out new features from start to finish, refining existing features, improving performance, and ensuring the security of our customer’s data.
Responsibilities
- Translating the product manager’s feature pitches into technical specifications
- Implementing those technical specifications as a series of small, descriptive, and well-tested GitHub pull request
- Pairing with your designer and developer teammates
- Reviewing your teammates’ pull requests to increase the quality of what we build and learn from one another
- Deploying to production with one click
- Investigating customer-reported bugs that have been triaged and researched by our fantastic support team
- Diagnosing errors that come in through our error monitoring tools
- Improving performance guided by Datadog and AWS Performance Insights
- Participating in book and code clubs to learn with/from other developers
Who We Look For
The best fits for any role on the Planning Center team are people embodying our Core Values:
Engage with Humility – We actively participate with openness and receptiveness. We are ready to listen, learn, and speak thoughtfully and kindly—regardless of skill level, expertise, or place on the org chart.
Invest In Our Team – We give our time and energy to our team’s success—improving collaboration with effective communication, making space for diverse perspectives, sharing knowledge, and asking questions.
Do Our Best Work – We aspire to do our best possible work—continually looking for ways to improve the quality of our individual output and contribute to our team’s overall success and growth.
Focus on Customer Impact – We advocate for our customer’s best interests in our decision-making—we can trace the goal of every project back to creating positive value for our customers.
Think Holistically, Work Iteratively – We focus on taking practical steps towards our goals with an awareness of the broader context—thinking big, working small.
We believe the strongest teams comprise people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, and we are committed to cultivating that diversity here at Planning Center. We’re building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do your best work.
The Hiring Process
During the hiring process, you’ll have a chance to interact with several members of our team. We strongly encourage you to bring any questions to anybody you interact with. You’re interviewing us as much as we’re interviewing you.
The teammates you’ll encounter along the way:
- Our Recruiting and Growth Strategist
- A few of our Senior Engineering Managers
- Several developers from the Product Department
- The Engineering Manager you’ll report to
For equitable reasons, we typically provide candidates with a timeline for hiring, so they can plan accordingly and determine early on in the process whether or not they can afford to wait on us; however, this particular round will stay open until all positions have been filled. Should you be offered a position here, the hiring team will discuss a start date that fits your schedule.
Below is an outline of the steps in our hiring process.
Step One: Apply with a resume and cover letter. Your cover letter should speak directly to your interest in this position. We want to know what got you into development, how your experience has set you up for success in this role, and why you want to join our team.
(A word of caution for those using AI cover letters: When compared to the hundreds of other candidates who did the exact same thing, it becomes painfully obvious who took the AI first draft. If you’re going to use these tools, we ask that you use them well. Please give our recruiter something a bit more human to read.)
Step Two: If selected to move forward, an invitation to an online coding assessment to get a rough understanding of your developer prowess
Step Three: Initial “blind screen” with our recruiter to get to know one another and discuss work and culture
Step Four: Pairing Interview over Zoom with a few members of the team – this will be a bit more lighthearted
Step Five: Technical Interview with a few developers (we’ll discuss your work experience, methodologies, and you can ask lingering questions you have about us).
Step Six: Pending all goes well, we’ll extend an offer
Requirements
- Reside in the United States
- Eligible to work in the United States (we are currently unable to offer employment to those with H-1B visas)
- Be willing to travel four times each year to connect with the rest of the team (not during a pandemic)
- Experience in Ruby on Rails and React.
Benefits
We love our team. It’s one of the core pillars we work off of every day, which is why we take care of you as best we can. Here are a few highlights, but you can find all our benefits here.
Get paid: We pay in the top 10% of the New York City rates no matter where you live, contribute to your 401k, provide a charitable giving match of up to $2,000 a year, have a generous allowance for continued education, and offer a co-working stipend. The annual salary range for this position is $148,292 – $190,661.
Be healthy: Generous paid sick time and vacation time, $200 a month for physical fitness and mental health, 95% medical & 100% dental premium health coverage.
Get out: Paid Fridays off in the summer, every other Friday off the rest of the year, a month-long sabbatical every five years, one week off between Christmas & New Year, one week off a year to serve with a non-profit, and two weeks paid vacation a year increasing to three over time.
