Senior Software Engineer - OTEL experience require - Contract IR35

Mindera; Leicester; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Leicester is seeking a Java Engineer to join their backend engineering team. You will design and develop scalable Java-based microservices and implement observability best practices with OpenTelemetry. Ideal candidates will have hands-on experience in Java and be able to mentor junior engineers. Competitive compensation is offered.

Benefits

Competitive day rate

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in Java development.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry for performance visibility.
• Ability to diagnose production issues using telemetry data.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable Java-based microservices.
• Implement observability best practices using OpenTelemetry.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to integrate telemetry data.
• Maintain instrumentation standards across Java applications.
• Contribute to architectural discussions on service design.
• Write clean, efficient, and testable code.
• Mentor junior engineers on observability practices.

Skills

Java-based microservices

OpenTelemetry (OTEL)

Observability best practices

Grafana

Prometheus

Jaeger

Tempo

Job description

Mindera is looking for aJava 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.

• 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.

Competitive day rate