Full-time

Senior Software Engineer - OTEL experience require - Contract IR35

Posted by Mindera • Leicester, England, United Kingdom

📍 Leicester, England 🕒 January 22, 2026

About the Role

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 te...
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