Design and develop Java microservices; implement observability with OpenTelemetry; collaborate with DevOps; mentor junior engineers.
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
Top Skills
Grafana
Jaeger
Java
Opentelemetry
Prometheus
Tempo
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