<div><strong>About Planning Center</strong></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>About the Work</strong></div><div>At Planning Center, the Engineering Manager (EM) plays a vital role in leading a collaborative and high-performing team of software developers. Our teams are purposefully small, focusing on a unifying vision—whether it’s a product or concept—and regularly delivering valuable features to our customers.</div><div><br></div><div>As the EM of API, you'll cultivate a healthy team environment grounded in autonomy and trust, empowering team members to deliver software effectively and contribute meaningfully to our mission. You will have the opportunity to make a lasting impact on Planning Center's core API infrastructure—a foundational system that powers both our own products and serves third-party developers. You'll guide the evolution of our real-time Message Bus and Webhooks infrastructure while exploring cutting-edge opportunities like building MCP servers that showcase our API's capabilities and shape our AI strategy. Leading this small, incredibly talented team, you'll collaborate to strengthen the technical foundation that enables Planning Center to serve churches worldwide.</div><div><br></div><h3>Responsibilities&nbsp;</h3><div><br></div><div><strong>Love Our Team: Build and Maintain a Healthy Team&nbsp;</strong></div><ul><li>Create a welcoming and collaborative team environment by sharing ideas, working with other teams and departments, and allowing for personal connections, especially in a remote setting.</li><li>Ensure a healthy work-life balance by establishing practical project scopes and deadlines.</li><li>Set clear expectations and support developers in owning their work, providing guidance and resources as needed.</li><li>Address performance issues constructively, supporting developers to improve or, if necessary, managing them out, with guidance and assistance from the Senior Engineering Manager (SEM).</li><li>Partner with developers to help them grow their careers by providing individualized attention in 1:1 sessions and other settings to guide their skill development and goal-setting.</li><li>Manage the administrative tasks that come with leading a team.</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>Love Our Code: Ensure a Healthy Codebase</strong></div><ul><li>Lead the team to enforce code quality best practices through regular PR reviews, testing, and thorough documentation.</li><li>Focus on making measurable improvements to the codebase to enhance maintainability and performance.</li><li>Align technical priorities with product goals, emphasizing technical debt management and readiness for innovation.</li><li>Advocate for new technologies and practices to boost efficiency and drive innovation.</li><li>Stay informed about team incidents, ensure proper on-call coverage, and conduct postmortems when necessary.</li><li>Collaborate with the team on architectural decisions, code reviews, pull requests, and other tasks.</li><li>Implement, monitor, and optimize measures to guide the team's activities toward healthy and sustainable code.</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>Love Our Product: Partner with Product to Ship Top-Priority Features</strong></div><ul><li>Partner with Product Managers to deliver top-priority features</li><li>Assign projects to team members and plan work in a way that maintains a good pace and avoids burnout.</li><li>Balance competing priorities and make tough decisions about resource allocation and project focus</li><li>Facilitate cycle planning, cycle retrospectives, and other meetings to improve team processes.</li><li>Manage uncertainty and change, adapting to shifting project scopes and unexpected challenges.</li><li>Align with stakeholders to set priorities, deadlines, and resource needs for successful project delivery.</li></ul><div><br></div><div><br></div><h3>Who We Look For</h3><div>The best fits for any role on the Planning Center team are people embodying our <strong>Core Values:</strong></div><div><br></div><ul><li>&nbsp;<strong>Engage with Humility -</strong> 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.</li><li>&nbsp;<strong>Invest in our team -</strong> 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.</li><li>&nbsp;<strong>Do Our Best Work -</strong> 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.</li><li>&nbsp;<strong>Focus on Customer Impact -</strong> 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.</li><li>&nbsp;<strong>Think Holistically, Work Iteratively -</strong> We focus on taking practical steps towards our goals with an awareness of the broader context—thinking big, working small.</li></ul><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><h3><strong>The Hiring Process</strong></h3><div>During the hiring process, you’ll have a chance to interact with several team members. We strongly encourage you to bring questions to each stage of the interview process. You’re interviewing us as much as we’re interviewing you.<br>&nbsp;</div><div><strong>Applications will be accepted until October 6 at 8am PDT.</strong></div><div><br>Below is an outline of our hiring process.</div><ul><li><strong>Step One</strong>: Apply with a resume and submit answers to the application questions so we can get to know a little bit more about you and your experience.&nbsp;</li><li><strong>Step Two</strong>: We'll send you an assessment to complete at home so we can mine insights into how you work through tricky situations and use your past experience to address issues.&nbsp;</li><li><strong>Step Three:</strong> Initial phone screen with our Talent Acquisition Specialist to get to know one another and discuss work and culture.</li><li><strong>Step Four: </strong>Technical Interview- During this interview we’ll discuss your work experience, methodologies, and do a coding exercise to learn more about your experiences, plus leave time for any questions you’d like to ask.</li><li><strong>Step Five</strong>: Product &amp; Engineering Conversation- You’ll meet with our Sr. Engineering Manager and one of our Product Managers so we can learn how you approach cross-functional collaboration and building with care.</li><li><strong>Step Six:&nbsp; </strong>Career Focused Interview- We will thoroughly review your career history, exploring your past working experiences and leadership style.</li><li><strong>Step Seven</strong>: Pending all goes well, an offer will be extended.<br>&nbsp;</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>Requirements</strong></div><ol><li>Reside in the United States</li><li>Eligible to work in the United States (<em>we are currently </em><strong><em>unable</em></strong><em> to offer employment to those with H-1B visas</em>)</li><li>Be willing to travel four times each year to connect with the rest of the team (not during a pandemic)</li><li>A minimum of 5 years developer experience</li><li>A minimum of 1 year of leadership and/or management experience</li><li>Experience in Ruby on Rails and React.</li></ol><div><br></div><div><strong>Benefits</strong></div><div>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.</div><div><br><strong>Get paid:</strong> 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 $181,700 - $213,800.&nbsp;</div><div><br><strong>Be healthy:</strong> Generous paid sick time and vacation time, $200 a month for physical fitness and mental health, 95% medical &amp; 100% dental premium health coverage.</div><div><br><strong>Get out:</strong> 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 &amp; 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. In 2026, we will be moving to a full four day work week!&nbsp;</div><div>The pay range for this role is:</div><div>181,700 - 213,800 USD per year (Remote)</div>

Engineering Manager

<div><strong>HOW YOU WILL IMPACT THE BIG PICTURE:</strong></div><div><br></div><div>As the Engineering Manager, Data Engineering, you will lead the design and operation of a modern, mission-driven data ecosystem for the world’s largest Catholic media network. You’ll own the architecture, implementation, and sustainment of our data platforms—deploying a Customer Data Platform (CDP), a scalable cloud lakehouse/warehouse (e.g., Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake), and cross-platform analytics tools (Mixpanel, PostHog) to unify data across all digital properties.</div><div>You’ll combine hands-on data engineering expertise with strategic leadership to transform fragmented donor, marketing, and content data into actionable insights that power evangelization, audience engagement, and operational efficiency.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><strong>WHAT YOU WILL DO:</strong></div><div><br></div><div>· <strong>Architect &amp; Build:</strong> Implement a unified data lake using medallion architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold layers) to ingest, cleanse, enrich, and activate data from sources like Virtuous CRM, HubSpot, FlexFormz, and streaming/video platforms.</div><div>· <strong>Integrate &amp; Automate:</strong> Create robust ETL/ELT pipelines with tools like dbt, Apache Airflow, and Fabric Dataflows to deliver Supporter 360 and Household 360 views, enabling identity resolution and multi-touch attribution.</div><div>· <strong>Enable Insights:</strong> Partner with analysts and business teams to design metrics, dashboards (Power BI), and self-service data products that support fundraising, marketing, and content strategy.</div><div>· <strong>Champion Data Quality:</strong> Establish governance, automated hygiene loops (email, address, phone validation), and standardized identity matching rules, ensuring compliance with GDPR/CCPA.</div><div>· <strong>Lead &amp; Collaborate:</strong> Manage a small engineering team and vendor partners, mentoring talent while working cross-functionally with Product, Marketing, Mission Advancement, and Content teams.</div><div>· <strong>Activate Data:</strong> Drive real-time data activation via APIs, reverse ETL, and CDP integrations for personalized, omni-channel engagement.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>ABOUT YOU:</strong></div><div><br></div><div>· 7+ years in data engineering/architecture, with at least 3 years in leadership roles.</div><div>· Proven experience with cloud data platforms (Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, Databricks, or similar) and modern pipeline tools (dbt, Airflow, Fivetran).</div><div>· Expertise in data modeling, identity resolution, and integrating diverse sources (CRM, marketing automation, e-commerce, OTT).</div><div>· Strong SQL, Python, and BI/visualization skills (Power BI, Tableau, Looker).</div><div>· Experience with data governance, privacy compliance, and vendor management.</div><div>· Familiarity with legacy systems, such as Virtuous CRM.</div><div>· Experience with digital media or streaming analytics.</div><div>· Passion for leveraging data in service of a faith-based, mission-driven organization, ideally a practicing Catholic with spiritual maturity.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><strong>WHAT YOU’LL LOVE ABOUT WORKING HERE:</strong></div><div><br></div><div>· We offer a career with purpose! Apply your God-given talents, knowing your contributions help to advance EWTN’s mission of sharing the Gospel with the world.</div><div>· Caring environment.&nbsp; We value the importance of family/life balance and welcome you as an EWTN family member, not just an employee.</div><div>· Worship at work! Freedom to participate in Mass, visit the chapel for prayer or attend an annual retreat.</div><div>· Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package including Health, Dental, Vision, Life &amp; Disability insurance and Retirement Savings Plan.</div><div>· 11 Paid Holidays and generous Paid Time Off program.</div><div>· Tuition reimbursement for online continuing education and degree programs through our partnership with Catholic International University.</div><div>· Ability to learn alongside legacy employees while bringing new ideas to the growing team.</div>

Engineering Manager, Data Engineering

<div>Want to make a difference? Join an organization that has been transforming lives for over 40 years!<br><br>As a Christian non-profit, Prison Fellowship® trains and inspires churches and communities—inside and outside of prison—to support the restoration of those affected by incarceration. We equip correctional leaders, volunteers, and incarcerated men and women to make prisons more rehabilitative places; we advocate for a more restorative criminal justice system; and we collaborate with churches and local service providers to support former prisoners, their families, and their communities.<br><br>Prison Fellowship® is an organization committed to the highest standards of conduct, ethics and Christian values. Our conduct is guided by and grounded in the Bible, as reflected in our Statement of Faith below.<br><br><strong>What we are looking for:</strong><br>A driven and mission-focused <strong>Sr. Manager, Software Engineering, Salesforce and Data</strong> to impact both ministry and business operations including Salesforce, Enterprise Data Integration, Data Warehousing, and Business Intelligence. As a software engineering leader, you will manage a software engineering team, including contractors, in the development of software, database, and integration solutions. The ideal candidate will have strong software engineering skills, leadership, mentorship, and communication skills.<br><br><strong>Expectations of this role:</strong></div><ul><li>Maintain an active relationship with Jesus Christ and support the ministry through prayer and actions</li><li>Manage and guide software engineering staff and contractors</li><li>Collaborate with Product Delivery Managers, other engineering teams, and leadership</li><li>Create and contribute to technical design documentation</li><li>Ensure development comports with best practices, PFM policies, and IT strategy</li><li>Ensure the use of approved tools, languages, frameworks, and platforms</li><li>Analyze platforms and tools and make recommendations for improvement</li><li>Help manage hosting environments and use request/incident ticket tracking and project management systems as needed</li></ul><div><br><strong>Qualifications:</strong></div><ul><li>Strong technical expertise in Salesforce or other enterprise CRM platform</li><li>Strong technical expertise in Data Warehousing technology</li><li>10+ years of management experience, 3+ years of experience leading software engineering teams</li><li>Bachelor's degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent experience</li><li>Strong background in software development, designing data models, data integration, data warehousing, and supporting analytics</li><li>Sound experience with GitHub, code management, merges, and deployments</li><li>Agile-like and Waterfall environment experience</li><li>Experience with CI/CD and Devops processes</li><li>Experience building web applications&nbsp;</li><li>Experience building and using APIs to integrate systems and SaaS environments</li><li>Knowledge and practical application of open source solutions is a plus</li><li>This is a remote/work from home position in the US with a 5% travel component and office hours are 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM EST</li></ul><div><br><strong>What we offer: </strong><br>At Prison Fellowship, our goal is to support the total well-being of all our employees. Our benefit offerings for full-time employees include health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, retirement account funding, flexible spending accounts, paid maternity and parental leave benefits, and more. Our outstanding benefits package includes paid leave starting at 39 days (14 holidays, 15 vacation days, 10 sick days) after one year of employment. Part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week on a regular basis are eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits, on a pro-rated basis. In addition, we offer a team-oriented, mission-driven, supportive environment with cutting-edge technology solutions and tremendous opportunity for growth and development. <br><br>Salary at Prison Fellowship is determined by a variety of factors. For this position, the salary range is projected to be between $113,000 and $130,000.<br><br>Visit the employment page on our website to learn more about Prison Fellowship.<br><br>Check out our YouTube channel to see how Prison Fellowship is transforming lives!<br><br><strong>OUR STATEMENT OF FAITH</strong><br><br><strong>The Foundation of What We Believe</strong><br>As a Christian organization, Prison Fellowship believes in the full authority of the Bible as God’s inspired word and the complete tenets of the Apostles’ Creed and the Nicene Creed.<br><br>We believe in one God, Creator and Lord of the Universe, the co-eternal Trinity; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We believe that Jesus Christ, God’s Son, was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, lived a sinless life, died a substitutionary atoning death on the cross, rose bodily from the dead and ascended to heaven where, as truly God and truly man, He is the only mediator between God and man. We believe that the Bible is God’s authoritative and inspired Word, without error in all its teachings.<br><br><strong>How We Are Compelled to Live and to Act</strong><br>We believe that Christians, both individually and corporately, must submit to the Bible as God’s authoritative, divine and inspired Word, in all matters of belief and conduct.</div>

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