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
What We Do
At Mindera we craft software with people we love. Software Engineering Applications, including Web and Mobile, are at the core of what we do at Mindera. You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together. Our culture reflects our lean and self-organization attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication. We partner with our clients, to understand their product and deliver high performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact in their users and businesses across the world Our offices are located in: Portugal | UK | USA | India | Romania | Brazil
