Freelance Software Engineer: Laravel, Kafka, CI/CD Lead

Two Sigma; Salinas (CA); On-site; USD 106,000 - 139,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Premium healthcare

Home-office allowance

Job summary

Two Sigma is seeking a freelance engineer in Salinas, CA to write clean, performant Strategic Planning code that runs in production. The role offers a compensation range of $106,000–$139,000, with autonomy to run projects and a supportive team focused on development.

The responsibilities include tracing complex bugs across Laravel services, prototyping ideas, and ensuring robust CI/CD workflows within California teams. Healthcare is provided and a home-office allowance is included.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of Agile experience.
• Ability to translate Agile complexity for a non-technical audience.
• Comfort navigating ambiguity when the brief arrives half-written.
• Good judgment to say no to good ideas at the wrong time.

Responsibilities

• Trace a slow-to-anger technology bug across three Laravel services to the one bad line.
• Translate a napkin idea from Two Sigma founders into a Laravel team-oriented prototype.
• Spot the innovative Relationship Building anti-pattern before it spreads through Two Sigma.
• Bridge Kafka and Laravel so the two halves of Two Sigma's platform finally talk.
• Maintain and improve CI/CD infrastructure across CA engineering teams.

Skills

Agile

Bug tracing

Team collaboration

Ambiguity navigation

Tools

Laravel

Kafka

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Two Sigma is seeking a freelance engineer in Salinas, CA to write clean, performant Strategic Planning code that runs in production. The role offers a compensation range of $106,000–$139,000, with autonomy to run projects and a supportive team focused on development.

The responsibilities include tracing complex bugs across Laravel services, prototyping ideas, and ensuring robust CI/CD workflows within California teams. Healthcare is provided and a home-office allowance is included.