Hybrid Senior Java Developer – OpenTelemetry

at Mindera

• Job title: Senior Java Developer – OpenTelemetry
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Azure, Cloud, Gradle, GraphQL, Java, Jenkins, Kotlin, Kubernetes, Microservices, MongoDB, MySQL, Spring, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Cluj Napoca, Romania

About the role

• Senior Java Developer enhancing Mindera’s projects using OpenTelemetry within a collaborative team. Responsible for code ownership, mentoring, and complex problem solving in a fun environment.

Responsibilities

• Being involved in all areas of delivery, with the technical gravitas to mentor and inspire the development team, helping your team improve by sharing your own knowledge, experience, and insights;
• Taking ownership of your code every step of the way - from development to deployment and maintenance;
• Diagnosing issues in production and devising solutions for them;
• Being an integral part of solutions design and implementation;
• Implement and maintain observability using OpenTelemetry (OTel) for distributed tracing, metrics, and logging across Java-based microservices.
• Challenging business requirements, to ensure you are continuously delivering the best possible outcome;
• Harnessing innovation and driving adoption of new technologies to deliver business value;
• Contributing to shaping our online technology roadmap, influencing our future technical direction, and balancing passion with precision to deliver exceptional online service and solutions for our customers;
• Conducting technical interviews for positions within your area of expertise.

Requirements

• **HOW YOU’LL MAKE AN IMPACT:**
• Being involved in all areas of delivery, with the technical gravitas to mentor and inspire the development team, helping your team improve by sharing your own knowledge, experience, and insights;
• Taking ownership of your code every step of the way - from development to deployment and maintenance;
• Diagnosing issues in production and devising solutions for them;
• Being an integral part of solutions design and implementation;
• Implement and maintain observability using **OpenTelemetry (OTel)** for distributed tracing, metrics, and logging across Java-based microservices.
• Challenging business requirements, to ensure you are continuously delivering the best possible outcome;
• Harnessing innovation and driving adoption of new technologies to deliver business value;
• Contributing to shaping our online technology roadmap, influencing our future technical direction, and balancing passion with precision to deliver exceptional online service and solutions for our customers;
• Conducting technical interviews for positions within your area of expertise.
• **YOUR SKILLS & EXPERIENCE**
• *The tech stack you will work with depends on the project;
• Minimum 7 years of experience with Java programming language, including latest versions (17 & 21);
• **Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry (OTel)** for instrumenting Java applications to collect and export traces, metrics, and logs;
• Experience in any of the popular web frameworks like Spring (boot, cloud, data flow) or Micronaut;
• Knowledge of architectural styles: Microservices, Web services, SOA and API Protocols: GraphQL Federation, REST API;
• Experience in monitoring & observability: OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, other Observability tools;
• Proficiency in using build tools: Gradle;
• Experience with unit testing, integration testing, and test-driven development;
• Cloud technology experience: Azure Cloud, Terraform, Kubernetes, Github Actions;
• Experience in working with databases: MongoDB, MySQL;
• Experience working with Application Lifecycle Management Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, NexusPro (or) similar;
• Working practices: Knowledge and experience of agile frameworks and practices: Scrum/Kanban, user stories, BDD/TDD, DevOps, Continuous Integration & Delivery, Pair Programming etc;
• Proficiency in applying design patterns effectively to develop scalable and maintainable solutions;
• Fluency in English;
• Depending on the project, relevant experience in other areas would be necessary:
• Strong understanding of Product Information Management / Master Data Management platforms (like Stibo STEP), and background in e-commerce/retail would be appreciated;
• For some projects Kotlin experience is nice-to-have.
• **We'd love to get to know you better!**

Benefits

• **THE PERKS OF BECOMING A MINDER:**
• Private medical subscription
• Private medical subscription for children
• Counseling and psychotherapy services
• Reimbursement for eyeglasses
• Self-proposal salary process
• Annual profit distribution, subject to company performance and board decision
• Mindera Unit Plan
• Flexible benefits options (sports, medical, cultural, donations)
• Trainings and learning opportunities to grow within your role
• Coaching and development guidance
• 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays)
• Flexibility to choose where you work from
• Vacation incentive
• Parties, gatherings & trips
• **WHY MINDERA?**
• We're thrilled to have the opportunity to share with you what it's like to be a part of the Mindera community.
• We're a group of friendly and talented individuals who work together to bring projects to life, in a fun, politics-free environment.
• Our culture is all about being adaptable and self-organized. We want Minders to take risks, make decisions, work together and feel free to be their most authentic selves, every single day.
• We work closely with our clients to truly understand their products and develop high-performance, resilient, and scalable software systems that make a real impact for their users and businesses, worldwide.
• We are proud of our work, we're always learning and growing in our Agile and collaborative environment, and we hope you'll love it here just as much as we do!