[Hiring] Mobile Developer (Android) @Planning Center

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.

 

Planning Center is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Android Developer to join our team. This role focuses on developing and maintaining high-quality applications for Android devices, ensuring a seamless user experience for our customers. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in Android development, with a deep understanding of Java and Kotlin, and a proven track record of building large-scale mobile applications with a significant user base.

 

• Lead the maintenance and expansion of our flagship Android products
• Design and build new features from start to finish, refine existing ones, and keep things running smoothly
• Ensure the security of our customers’ data
• Turn feature ideas into solid technical plans and implement them with small, well-tested GitHub pull requests
• Mentor and collaborate with your designer and developer teammates
• Dive into code reviews to ensure we’re all learning and producing top-notch code
• Get your code ready for builds and releases on Google Play and the Amazon Appstore
• Continuously improve our tools for automated application build and release
• Stay updated with the latest Android features and figure out how they can make our apps even better
• Investigate and fix bugs reported by our awesome support team
• Use tools like Firebase Crashlytics and Android Studio to diagnose and resolve errors
• Join in on book and code clubs to keep growing and learning together
• Work closely with a friendly, collaborative development team to reach our goals and deliver fantastic products

 

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.

 

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 Mobile Team
• The Mobile 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 mobile 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 and skills

Step Three: Initial “blind screen” with our recruiter to get to know one another and discuss work and culture

Step Four: Pairing and Technical Interview over Zoom with a few members of the team (we’ll discuss your work experience, methodologies, and you can ask lingering questions you have about us)

Step Five: Pending all goes well, we’ll extend an offer

 

• Proven track record of publishing and maintaining large-scale Android apps with a big user base
• Expert-level skills in Java and Kotlin
• Experience with Android SDK, Jetpack libraries, and other Android frameworks
• React Native experience is a nice bonus
• Strong grasp of mobile architecture, design patterns, and best practices
• Sharp problem-solving skills and keen attention to detail
• Experience working closely with a collaborative team
• Willingness to travel four times a year to connect with the team
• You must reside and be eligible to work in the United States

 

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.

 

Tagged as: Mid-level, Senior-level