Full Stack Engineer - and React at Planning Center

About Planning Center

Planning Center, established in 2006, has grown to support over 90,000 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 three times a year at our main office in Carlsbad, CA, fostering our work relationships.

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.

• Translating the product manager’s feature pitches into technical specifications
• Implementing those technical specifications as a series of small, descriptive, and well‑tested Git Hub 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

• 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.

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.