Full Stack Engineer, Publishing

About Planning Center

Planning Center, established in 2006, has grown to support over 85,000 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 a Full Stack Engineer for our Publishing product team, with significant experience (4+ years) in Ruby on Rails and a solid understanding of 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 :

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.

Below is an outline of the steps in our hiring process.

Note : While we embrace the use of AI tools at Planning Center and see them as a valuable part of modern work, we kindly ask that you write your cover letter in your own voice. Whether or not you use tools to help get started, we're hoping the final result reflects your personal communication style and interest in the role.

Requirements

we are currently  unable

to offer employment to those with H-1B visas )

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 competitive 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 $146,600 - $175,000.

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 globally-focused non-profit, and two weeks paid vacation a year increasing to three over time.