Java API ( Kotlin ) Developer

About BNP Paribas India Solutions

Established in 2005, BNP Paribas India Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of BNP Paribas SA, European Union’s leading bank with an international reach. With delivery centers located in Bengaluru, Chennai and Mumbai, we are a 24x7 global delivery center. India Solutions services three business lines: Corporate and Institutional Banking, Investment Solutions and Retail Banking for BNP Paribas across the Group. Driving innovation and growth, we are harnessing the potential of over 10000 employees, to provide support and develop best-in-class solutions.

About BNP Paribas Group

BNP Paribas is the European Union’s leading bank and key player in international banking. It operates in 65 countries and has nearly 185,000 employees, including more than 145,000 in Europe. The Group has key positions in its three main fields of activity: Commercial, Personal Banking & Services for the Group’s commercial & personal banking and several specialised businesses including BNP Paribas Personal Finance and Arval; Investment & Protection Services for savings, investment, and protection solutions; and Corporate & Institutional Banking, focused on corporate and institutional clients. Based on its strong diversified and integrated model, the Group helps all its clients (individuals, community associations, entrepreneurs, SMEs, corporates and institutional clients) to realize their projects through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings and protection insurance. In Europe, BNP Paribas has four domestic markets: Belgium, France, Italy, and Luxembourg. The Group is rolling out its integrated commercial & personal banking model across several Mediterranean countries, Turkey, and Eastern Europe. As a key player in international banking, the Group has leading platforms and business lines in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas as well as a solid and fast-growing business in Asia-Pacific. BNP Paribas has implemented a Corporate Social Responsibility approach in all its activities, enabling it to contribute to the construction of a sustainable future, while ensuring the Group's performance and stability.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At BNP Paribas, we passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued, respected and can bring their authentic selves to work. We prohibit Discrimination and Harassment of any kind and our policies promote equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants, irrespective of, but not limited to their gender, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, colour, national origin, age, religion, social status, mental or physical disabilities, veteran status etc. As a global Bank, we truly believe that inclusion and diversity of our teams is key to our success in serving our clients and the communities we operate in.

About Business Line /Function

At BNP Paribas Deutschland Tribe CUSTOMER, we are working on the next stage of customer and contracts care solutions to allow our business partner to provide the best possible customer banking experience. This includes state-of-the-art platform and business process automation solutions.

Job Title

Java Kotlin Developer

Date

01-Jul-2025

Department

ISPL – PI Germany

Location:

Chennai

Business Line / Function

CUSTOMER – Backend

Reports To

(Direct)

Team Lead

Grade

(if applicable)

(Functional)

Number Of Direct Reports

0

Directorship / Registration

NA

Position Purpose

The developer helps with the development of API-related information systems and contributes to ensuring its continuity through personal effort as part of a team or to a limited extent within the department to achieve short-term and occasionally medium-term goals.

They help in the development and realization of the software architecture as a contribution to high-quality software solutions in accordance with the applicable best practices (maintainable, safe, documented, scalable, testable and in accordance with the needs of the business area).

Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

• Developing and maintain API products in CUSTOMER Tribe
• Co-designing technical implementation of API strategy
• Ensuring the timeliness of documentation, processes, and tool landscape
• Maintenance and development of the API platform
• Ensuring continuous delivery processes via automated pipelines
• Implementing and co-designing architectural specifications
• Ensuring software quality, test automation, and integration of tools (e.g., Sonar, Fortify) into development process
  
  

Contributing Responsibilities

• Supporting design and implementation of internal APIs
• Supporting co-creation with partners with technical expertise
• Supporting implementation and maintenance of BNP Paribas API Policy
• Supporting requirements elicitation
• Co-designing API guidelines for internal software development
• Co-designing API lifecycle management
  
  

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or computer engineering
• At least 3+ years of hands-on experience on Advance API development in Kotlin
• 8+ years of experience as software engineer
• Java EE including (Web Services, REST, JPA)
• Strong in Design Patterns, Hands on in Java 8,11 or 17
• Hands on in Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Cloud, Spring Data JPA
• Webservices: Restful webservice, REST API , Hands on in openAPI/Swagger
• Databases : Oracle/PostgreSQL
• CICD: Docker, Kubernetes , Jenkins, Maven, Pod Man – Good to have
• Design, Develop and Maintain robust and complex applications that interacts with one-to-many interfaces.
  
  

Core Skill Sets

• Strong Java and Kotlin technical Expertise
• Strong critical thinker with problem solving aptitude.
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Hands-on experience on API related activities: requirement analysis, design, resource-based API modeling, micro-services architecture
• Knowledge about API design standards, patterns and best practices
• Hands-on experience in API security standards and implementation
• Hibernate
• Microservice Architecture
• Testing Junit & Mockito
  
  

Specific Qualifications

• Good to have - Min 6 years of Exp. with Kubernetes or Openshift on one of these GCP / AWS / Azure
• Good to have – Knowledge of one of the following tools: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack or Cloud Watch
  
  

Skills Referential

Behavioural Skills: (Please select up to 4 skills)

Ability to collaborate / Teamwork

Client focused

Attention to detail / rigor

Ability to deliver / Results driven

Transversal Skills: (Please select up to 5 skills)

Ability To Develop Others & Improve Their Skills

Ability to understand, explain and support change

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Education Level

Bachelor Degree or equivalent

Experience Level

At least 10 years