We’ve got each other’s backs and celebrate our strength in diversity.
HTEC is a professional playground for everyone to grow and pursue their ambition, fueled by a culture of support, solidarity, and togetherness that extends beyond the office walls and into our communities.
Our
values
Keep Learning
Keep Growing
Push your limits. Find new ways to maximize opportunities. Then share what you learn, and learn from others – so we all stay on the cutting edge.
Act With Empathy
and Support
Check in with colleagues to make sure they’re doing OK. We respect everyone’s backgrounds, differences, and opinions – and care about them as people.
Build Trust With Transparency
Say what you mean and do what you say. Be open and honest, and always do what you promise – so that we can rely on each other when we need to.
Own Your
Business
Go beyond what’s asked of you and support the team in any way you can. If you spot a way to create better results – do it.
Lead With
Integrity
We nourish authenticity and courage to think differently, and we always do the right thing, even if no one is looking. For us, being a good person, trumps everything else.
Sometimes what we choose not to do defines us as much as what we do. We are persistently saying NO to engagements that may have a negative effect on the world around us. We want our people to be proud when they tell their children, parents, and friends, about the work they do and the positive impact it makes.
Dušan Kosić
Co-Founder and President
Our history
HTEC’s founding mission is to establish a premium engineering and digital product development company that leverages the latest technology and delivers unparalleled service to its customers while creating an exceptional workplace for its employees.
Since its early days, HTEC has positioned itself as a strategic technology partner to its clients, working on the most challenging technology, core IP, and revenue-generating products for global enterprises and innovative startups.
Our strategy combines the best engineering talent in Southeast Europe with the best product consulting in global centers to conceptualize, develop, and deliver complete digital solutions across industries and domains.
2024
HTEC acquires SYRMIA to expand its AI, machine learning and embedded software engineering capabilities and further strengthen its engineering base in Southeast Europe.
2023
HTEC starts forming an advisory board of Fortune 500 executives and cross-industry experts to support its global expansion strategy and reinforce the company brand. The company’s US and UK teams scale up to help achieve strategic goals in two key markets – the US and EU.
2022
HTEC Group acquires Mistral Technologies and Way 7, thus becoming the largest tech company in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Overall, the company exceeds 2000 team members across 20 cities in 8 countries.
2021
HTEC Group acquires the renowned Momentum Design Lab agency, further enhancing its product consulting expertise and fortifying its presence in the US and the UK.
The company also expands its engineering capabilities across multiple locations in Romania and Hungary and establishes a presence in Ljubljana (Slovenia). HTEC’s growth trajectory is acknowledged with a $140 million investment from Brighton Park Capital.
2020
HTEC establishes a presence in Minneapolis (US). The company expands its services to product consulting through the acquisition of the Konstrukt company.
2019
HTEC Group acquires Execom, one of the largest tech companies in Serbia. The team grows to include more than 500 members.
2018
HTEC establishes a presence in London (UK) and opens a development center in Banja Luka (BiH) – the first development center outside of Serbia
2017
HTEC establishes a presence in Sweden.
2016
The company headquarters move from Belgrade to San Francisco. The company reaches 200 team members and establishes its product design practice.
2014
HTEC Novi Sad office is established. The company reaches 100 team members across 3 cities in Serbia.
2012
HTEC office in Niš is established. The company expands its services to include software development, mobile applications, and platform engineering.
2011
The company establishes and further strengthens a substantial expertise in areas such as embedded engineering, signal processing, computed vision, and IoT.
2008
The company started from a modest top-floor office of the Business Incubator of the Faculty of Technical Sciences in Belgrade.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) at HTEC
We believe it’s crucial to foster an environment where every individual, regardless of background, feels valued, respected, and empowered to contribute their best work. Here is what it means in practice:
Freedom of religious expression: Most HTEC employees come from the Southeast Europe region, a part of the world with religious and ethnic diversity that we honor in our organizational structure. This includes organizing the workload in such a way as to enable each of our team members to use additional paid leave days (on top of their vacation) for religious holidays of their choice. In addition, our offices in Bosnia and Herzegovina have dedicated prayer rooms as safe spaces for everyone who wishes to practice their faith.
Supporting employees with disabilities: Our office premises are fully accessible for people with disabilities (including at least one accessible office space location in each city where HTEC is present). We also support colleagues with disabilities achieving great results outside the workplace. We’re particularly proud to have contributed to the success our colleagues achieved in the Deaflympic and Paralympic Games.
Reducing the gender pay gap
Reducing the gender pay gap: At HTEC, the female-to-male earnings ratio for the same job position is 95.6%. In comparison, U.S. Census data from 2021 shows that in the U.S., women software engineers earn 89.7% of what men engineers do, and across all occupations, women in the U.S. earn 81.5% of men’s earnings on average. Although HTEC’s statistics are considerably better that the industry standard, we are strongly committed to eliminating the gap completely.
HTEC Cares
Acting global. Supporting local. From day one, HTEC chose to work exclusively with local partners and vendors and has always found ways to engage and empower local communities and initiatives. We believe in being open-minded, giving back, growing as a community, and supporting the under-resourced. As a community and as individuals, we believe that no contribution is too small – especially if it means engaging those around us to join us in creating a positive impact.
HTEC supports initiatives
across three pillars:
HTEC cares about
education
Every child is entitled to the best possible education. Unfortunately, due to economic, geographic, and social and cultural factors, this is not always the case. At HTEC, our goal is to help improve the quality of education in local communities through various STEM initiatives. We support local educational fundraisers, organize workshops and office visits that give students access to practical knowledge, and lead initiatives to support female students pursuing STEM careers.
ethical responsibility
Acting with empathy and support is one of HTEC’s core values. Our ethical responsibility pillar is based on underlying principles of equality, inclusivity, and respect. This includes donating to worthy causes that support vulnerable groups, working with clients whose values match our own, organizing internal fundraising campaigns to support medical treatments for our employees’ loved ones, and building a strong anti-discrimination policy in our Code of Conduct and Ethics.
environment and sustainability
Our environment and sustainability pillar is focused on the environmental footprint we have and finding ways to reduce it. HTEC initiatives in this area include introducing recycling systems in our offices, engaging in tree-planting initiatives in multiple cities, and helping clean illegal landfills at local beaches, riverbanks, etc.
