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My friend, former boss and serial entrepreneur Alex Zoghlin asked me to help him find some talent. While these aren’t marketing jobs, I look at it this way: If they’re hiring software developers that means they’re growing… and as they grow, they’ll either need to hire a marketing consultant (me?) or hire staff (you?) so it’s all good right?

VHT is a fast growing venture backed startup in the Real Estate marketing space. We’ve recently launched a unique software platform for the industry which is catching on significantly faster than we anticipated. We expect to add over 200,000 paying real estate professionals onto the platform THIS YEAR! Our sales efforts is outstripping our ability to handle the customers, and we need help.
If you are a talented software developer (or know one you can forward this to), and can answer YES to the following questions, we’d love to talk to you!

1. You’re more of a pragmatist than a perfectionist

2. You’ve muttered “I’m up anyways, might as well code” at 4:30 a.m. at least once in your life.

3. You understand why the above is misleading because time is continuous, not discrete and the probability of any individual having muttered anything at exactly 4:30 a.m. is near zero. But, you answered yes to #2 anyways, because you’re practical and know what was actually meant.

4. Your sense of satisfaction from software development is a function of how many users are delighted with what you’ve built.

5. You can argue both sides of a technical debate most of the time, if you had to. Some of the time, you actually do, just to better understand the tradeoffs.

6. You’ve been impressed with someone else’s code at some point in your life.

7. You’ve reused someone else’s code at some point in your life, and resisted the temptation to rewrite it.

8. Given a weekend, you could build and launch a trivial web application from start to finish in a language/platform of your choosing (C#,Java,PHP,Python,Ruby,etc.). And, since you’ve actually had weekends, you’ve actually gone ahead and done this.

9. You’re strangely comforted by the fact that the list of languages in #8 is alphabetical and not in descending or ascending order of quality/power/coolness/etc as you really don’t have the time for a religious war on languages and platforms.

10. Given a long weekend and some caffeine, you could do #8 with a popular language/platform that is not of your choosing.

11. You’ve developed something non-trivial before that nobody you know could recreate in a weekend (and you know more than two people that you’d consider great developers).

12. You’re going to start your own company someday. So, you’re interested in sales, marketing, operations and things other than figuring out how to make Ruby on Rails scale to large numbers of users when there are complicated database queries involved.

13. You read a lot, including things like Slashdot and hacker news.

14. You’re not just an internet developer, you’re an internet participant. You actually use the stuff other people have built.

15. You’ve used Microsoft products (including things like .net 3.5 and C#) and are not afraid to tell anyone.

16. The whole concept of cloud computing excites you because you don’t want to have to think about things like managing datacenters, or limiting the customer experience because of hardware scaling issues.

If you’re interested contact hr-it@vht.com and reference Marketing Job Wire / Sima Dahl as your source.

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