Senior Software Engineer - OTEL - IR35

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

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable Java-based microservices and backend systems.
• Implement observability best practices using Open Telemetry (OTEL) for tracing, metrics, and logging.
• Collaborate with platform and Dev Ops teams to integrate telemetry data with systems such as Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger, or Tempo
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• 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.

Competitive day rate