The opportunity timeline

• Overview

  NexGen Systems is hiring a Environmental Engineer in Salinas, CA.

• Role description

  The Environmental Engineer we want has shipped Strategic Planning to production, broken it, and learned more from the second part than the first. From day one you own a slice of the technology mission, earn $102,000 - $142,000, and lean on 4 years to move fast.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Keep NexGen Systems's Relationship Building dependencies patched before the CVEs become incidents
  • Apply Next.js and Strategic Planning to solve low-drama engineering challenges
  • Optimize application performance, latency, and resource utilization at scale
  • Reverse-engineer the fiercely-supportive PHP format NexGen Systems inherited and never documented
  • Design PHP APIs other Salinas, CA teams will still thank you for next year

  What You'll Bring

  • Strong rapport-building skills and a genuinely positive presence
  • Mid-level fluency in PHP, with Strategic Planning on your roadmap
  • Comfort owning the unglamorous middle of a temporary project
  • A keen eye for quality and consistency in your output
  • Eagerness to take ownership and run with new responsibilities

  NexGen Systems took a tired corner of the technology world and rebuilt it, brick by brick, from a small office in Salinas, CA. Transparency is a habit, so roadmaps, tradeoffs, and even mistakes get shared openly.

  What you get for saying yes: $102,000 - $142,000, a mentor in your corner, full benefits, and hours that flex toward what matters in Salinas.

  This one is current, freshly dated, and very much hiring.

  If Salinas is where you want to build a career, NexGen Systems wants to hear from you.

• Required skills

  • Ruby
  • PHP
  • PostgreSQL
  • Angular
  • Next.js
  • React
  • Strategic Planning
  • Relationship Building

• Benefits & perks

  • Conference Attendance
  • Employee resource groups (ERGs)
  • Family planning support
  • Reservist support
  • Identity theft protection
  • Coworking space allowance
  • Commuter benefits
  • Employer-paid health premiums
  • Long-term disability insurance
  • Pet insurance
  • Snacks and Beverages
  • Equipment Allowance
  • Fertility benefits and IVF coverage
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid Time Off

• Apply before 2026-09-09

  Submit your application for this Temporary technology position.