English speaking vacancies in Holland: MOBILE DEVELOPER RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT (BACKBASE

Thursday 27 October 2011

MOBILE DEVELOPER RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT (BACKBASE - AMSTERDAM)

As Mobile Developer you are part of the R&D department of Backbase in Amsterdam. R&D uses Scrum as development process, along with elements from XP and TDD. The Scrum teams are highly self-responsible which gives you a lot of freedom as well as responsibility to deliver functionality as a team. As a Frontend Developer you will join one of the Scrum teams.

Backbase has strong ambitions to become a major player in its field and provides a challenging, professional, informal working environment.

The goal

As a Mobile Developer you will work on the latest mobile and cross-platform technologies on iOS, Android, Windows Mobile and Blackberry. You will lead the architecture and build software to strengthen the Backbase flagship portal product, but also give best practices to guide our implementations and advice our customers across the world on how to architecture and implement mobile portals. You will advice product management and work in a release team to integrate mobile solutions with other Backbase software. You will educate our designers, developers and testers on the latest development in mobile technology.

Your Profile

The ideal candidate for this challenging position within Backbase will fit the following profile:

Broad architecture and development skills;
One-man technology army;
Devoted to keep on learning, understanding and using new mobile (cross platform) technologies
Experience with mobile development on one or multiple of the main mobile platforms; iOS, Android, Windows Mobile and Blackberry;
Experience with mobile development frameworks like App Inventor, DroidDraw, Rhomobile, PhoneGap, Appcelerator, WebView or AML is an advantage;
Experience with Scrum and Test-Driven-Development is preferred;
Quality driven & pixel-perfect focused;
Understanding and experience on architecture design patterns;
Able to mentor (junior) colleagues;
You possess good communicative skills in English ;
You are proficient at expressing your professional opinion but listen to and value other contributions at the same time;
You understand the importance of customers in product development and are capable of translating functional requirements into a technical design
Experience within a (international) product organization is an absolute plus.

Backbase is growing and therefore we are looking for new colleagues!

We are looking for a Mobile Developer to empower our current Research & Development team.

As a Mobile Developer within Backbase in Amsterdam you will be working within the headquartered R&D of a leading and innovative web 2.0 company, which specializes in Customer Experience 2.0 software and services.

Backbase works for global enterprises like ABN AMRO, KPN, ING, Philips, Tinkoff, Visa, AIG, EMC, Vanguard and IBM. Because of the growing interest Backbase customers have in mobile portals, we have a challenging opportunity for a Mobile Developer who is willing to continuously learn technology and deliver mobile applications based on the latest technologies across all main mobile platforms.

The offer

Backbase will provide you with excellent company benefits:

Market rate salary (depending on experience);
25 holidays (based upon a 40hr work week)
Contributory pension scheme
Free lunch
Potential International career opportunities (USA)
Backbase offers you a challenging job in an informal and ambitious environment where personal development is highly valued. All within a successful, young and growing organization with a matching company spirit. You will report to the VP Products directly.

Next Steps

If this job appeals to you and you think you are up for the challenge, drop us an email with you resume and your thoughts on working with us.

For more information please contact Backbase Recruitment at 020 468 6838

More info: http://www.vkbanen.nl/detail_baan/4725882_mobile-developer-research--development-backbase---amsterdam_amsterdam.jsp

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Introduction of the ‘European Blue Card’

As from 19 June 2011 the Netherlands has a new purpose of stay: the European Blue Card. The European Blue Card is a separate purpose of stay in addition to the existing National Highly Skilled Migrant Programme. The EU Blue Card Council Directive is intended for highly skilled foreign nationals who do not have EU, EEA or Swiss nationality, and who wish to work in one of the member states of the EU. The Directive is also meant to make it easier to settle in another EU member state. A residence permit will always be required in that other member state, however. To obtain this residence permit the employee must comply with the conditions applicable in that member state.

The conditions for residence in the Netherlands as an EU Blue Card holder are stricter than those for residence as a Highly Skilled Migrant. The employee must have a contract for highly qualified employment for at least one year, earning at least EUR 60,000 gross (in 2011). The employee must have completed a course of higher education lasting at least three years. The employee must prove this by having his diploma assessed by Nuffic. For a regulated profession, a competent authority will take decisions about the admission to that profession.

Advantages
One of the advantages of the EU Blue Card is that it is easier for an EU Blue Card holder and his family members to settle in another EU member state at a later date. After eighteen months foreign nationals who have an EU Blue Card are exempted from the provisional residence permit (MVV) requirement, if they want to work in another EU member State. In this second member state the employee must submit an application for a residence permit as a holder of an EU Blue Card. Each member state may implement the directive in slightly different ways. If someone holds a Blue Card in the Netherlands, this does not mean that the requirements are also met in other member states.

Another advantage is that after having stayed lawfully with the EU Blue Card holder in the Netherlands for two years, the family members may apply for a residence permit for ‘continued residence’. For other purposes of stay this is only possible after having stayed lawfully in the Netherlands for three years. The family members must have resided legally and continuously within the territory of an EU member state for at least five years, however. An employee who has stayed legally in the Netherlands as an EU Blue Card holder for two years may apply for the status of ‘long-term resident as a non-EU member country national’. He must have resided legally and continuously within EU territory for five years and must comply with the other conditions for this purpose of stay.

Highly skilled migrants from outside of the EU

A highly skilled migrant is a migrant who comes to the Netherlands to be employed, and has a gross annual income of at least €47,565, or €34,881 if he/she is under thirty. This income requirement does not apply if the employee enters service for certain functions in an educational or research institution. For information on the specific functions to which this clause applies, you can inquire at the IND office for labour and highly skilled migrants. When a foreign national has been granted residence in the Netherlands as a highly skilled migrant, the employer of the highly skilled migrant is not required to be in possession of a work permit for that foreign national.

Professional soccer players, ministers of religion, teachers of religion and prostitutes are not eligible for a residency as highly skilled migrant.

Important!
The amounts stated above will be indexed every year as of 1 January.