Senior Software Engineer - OTEL experience require - Contract IR35

Mindera is looking for a Java Engineer with hands-on experience in OpenTelemetry (OTEL) to join our backend engineering team. You’ll play a key role in designing, building, and instrumenting high-performance Java services.

Requirements

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable Java-based microservices and backend systems.
• Implement observability best practices using OpenTelemetry (OTEL) for tracing, metrics, and logging.
• Collaborate with platform and DevOps teams to integrate telemetry data with systems such as Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger, or Tempo.
• Define and maintain instrumentation standards across Java applications to ensure consistency and performance visibility.
• Diagnose complex production issues through telemetry data and performance profiling.
• Contribute to architectural discussions on service design, distributed systems, and monitoring strategy.
• Write clean, efficient, and testable code following best practices in CI/CD and automated testing.
• Mentor junior engineers on observability and instrumentation concepts.

Benefits

Competitive day rate