Senior Software Engineer - OTEL experience require - Contract IR35

Mindera

United Kingdom · Contract · Mid-Senior

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

Key Skills

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java microservices prometheus grafana devops cicd

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Posted: Oct 28, 2025
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Level: Mid-Senior
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