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.<ul><li>Design, develop, and maintain scalable Java-based microservices and backend systems.</li><li>Implement observability best practices using OpenTelemetry (OTEL) for tracing, metrics, and logging.</li><li>Collaborate with platform and DevOps teams to integrate telemetry data with systems such as Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger, or Tempo.</li><li>Define and maintain instrumentation standards across Java applications to ensure consistency and performance visibility.</li><li>Diagnose complex production issues through telemetry data and performance profiling.</li><li>Contribute to architectural discussions on service design, distributed systems, and monitoring strategy.</li><li>Write clean, efficient, and testable code following best practices in CI/CD and automated testing.</li><li>Mentor junior engineers on observability and instrumentation concepts.</li></ul>