Senior Software Engineer - OTEL experience require - Contract IR35

Mindera

Leicester, England, United Kingdom Hybrid permanent

Posted: October 28, 2025

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Quick Summary

Design, develop, and maintain scalable Java-based microservices and backend systems, implementing observability best practices using OpenTelemetry (OTEL) for tracing, metrics, and logging.

Required Skills

Java OpenTelemetry Microservices Observability Automated Testing Mentoring

Job Description

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

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