AJAX jobs...

It's pretty difficult to find good software engineers right now, especially engineers with the right experience. They should be good software engineers in general, but also have some experience with web applications, or ideally with AJAX. It's funny to see that even Google is accused of hiring all the bright engineers (NY Times article). Also see a surprisingly well-organized discussion on Slashdot about it.

In our own organization one potential employee went to Google (Zurich), instead of to Backbase, and several other people we've hired also considered Google. So I can't say that Google is luring away 'our' engineers. But I can confirm that it's difficult to find the right people, especially AJAX developers.

We've put job postings on Monsterboard, but very few people respond to our advertisements, and the Monsterboard CV database has very few interesting CVs. It's probably best to conclude that the economy is improving again. Which is good news, of course :-)

But anyhow: if you're a good software engineer and you would be interested to join a leading AJAX company, have a look at www.backbase.com/careers. R&D is based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, which is very nice place to work. It even seems that the Dutch government improved their immigration procedures, so we can actually get work permits for people from outside Europe. We already have over 10 nationalities in our office in Amsterdam, so feel free to add to this.

PS. We're also hiring sales people for our new office in San Francisco.