About the Work
We’re growing and hiring Full Stack Engineers across multiple product teams. Ideal candidates have 2+ years of professional experience with Ruby on Rails and React. Experience in React Native is a big plus. You’ll collaborate with a cross-functional team to deliver new features, refine current ones, improve performance, and maintain the security of customer 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.
Applications will be accepted until January 21, 2026 at 8:00am PT. Please note that we may not reach out about next steps until after the application window closes. We wanted to share this timeline since it extends into next week.
Below is an outline of the steps in our hiring process.
- Step One: Apply with a resume and complete the application questions so we can learn more about your background and experience
Our application questions are a chance for us to get to know you, so feel free to answer them the way you might in a cover letter and in your own words without using AI tools. - 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 phone screen with our Talent Acquisition Specialist to get to know one another and discuss work and culture
- Step Four: Career Focused and Pairing Interview with a few of our Engineering Managers- In this conversation we’ll take a thoughtful look at your career journey, past work experiences, and leadership style. We’ll also spend some time on a pairing exercise, which will be a bit more interactive and lighthearted.
- Step Five: Technical Interview with a few of our Engineering Managers. We’ll walk through a technical assessment together, talk about your experience and approach to your work, and leave space for any questions you’d like to ask.
- 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 three times each year to connect with the rest of the team
- 2+ years of professional experience in Ruby on Rails
- 2+ years of professional experience in React
Note: If you've applied for this same role within the past 9 months, we kindly ask that you do not reapply at this time. We thoughtfully review each application, and while we may not move forward now, we encourage you to apply for future opportunities that align with your experience.
Benefits and Compensation
We love our team—it’s one of the core pillars that guides how we work every day. That’s why we invest deeply in your well-being, growth, and balance. Here are some highlights (you can explore all our benefits here):
Get paid:
We offer competitive pay no matter where you live. We also contribute to your 401(k), provide a charitable giving match of up to $2,000 per year, offer a generous allowance for continued education, and include a coworking stipend. The annual salary range for this position is $121,000 - $201,000.
Be healthy:
You’ll receive generous paid sick and vacation time, $200 per month for physical fitness and mental health, and 95% medical plus 100% dental premium coverage.
Get out:
Enjoy paid Fridays for the entire year! We also offer a month-long sabbatical every five years, a week off between Christmas and New Year’s, a week each year to serve with a globally focused non-profit, and two weeks of paid vacation (increasing to three over time).
