Ios Engineer

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.

About the Work Planning Center is looking for a skilled and experienced iOS Engineer to join our mobile team. This role focuses on developing and maintaining multiple native iOS applications. Candidates should be passionate about building high-quality mobile apps and have a strong background in iOS development.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain high-quality iOS applications, collaborating with other developers to integrate platform-specific features and optimize performance.
• Prepare your code for mobile builds and releases on the Apple App Store, while improving tools and processes for automated application build and release.
• Conduct code reviews to maintain high-quality standards, share knowledge, and mentor teammates across our systems.
• Stay updated with the latest iOS features and libraries, applying them to enhance our apps and solve complex challenges.
• Investigate and resolve bugs using tools like Firebase Crashlytics, ensuring our apps remain stable and responsive.
• Participate in book and code clubs to foster continuous learning and growth, working closely with a friendly, supportive development team.

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 for this role will be accepted until January 23, 2026 at 8AM 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 Manager to get to know one another and discuss work and culture
• Step Four: Team Interview- In this step, you'll meet with a few members of the team. We'll ask questions to learn more about your experience and what draws you to this team.
• Step Five: Technical Interview with a few developers. During this time, we'll discuss your work experience, methodologies, and you can ask any lingering questions you have for 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 three times each year to connect with the rest of the team
• Strong proficiency in Swift and modern iOS development practices
• Experience shipping and maintaining production applications
• Comfortable working in existing Objective-C codebases

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 $108,000 –$188,800.

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).