Dino Hamzić — Software Engineer

Remote.com — Engineering Manager

Full-time, May 2021 — Jun 2025

Engineering Manager

• Led and scaled multiple engineering teams, including building new teams from scratch. Over 2 years, I directly managed 8 Team Leads and oversaw more than 35 skip-level reports. These teams had diverse responsibilities, including developing our public-facing marketing website (Growth team), building internal developer and operations tooling (Knowledge Database team), and delivering customer-facing product initiatives (Market Insights, Product-Led Growth, and AI & Knowledge Management teams).
• Both as an Individual Contributor and a Manager, I interviewed over 200 candidates for roles including Frontend and Backend Engineers, Engineering Team Lead, Engineering Manager, and even Product Manager, playing a key role in scaling our engineering team from 15 to over 300 in less than 3 years. For more than a year, I served as the Hiring Manager and DRI for the Backend Elixir Engineer and Senior Backend Elixir Engineer pipelines, some of our most critical roles.

May 2023 — Jun 2025

Engineering Team Lead

• Led the Knowledge Database and Product-Led Growth teams, working on internal developer and operations tooling in the former, and customer-focused initiatives in the latter. I split my time between hands-on development, code reviews, line management, mentoring, project planning, and guiding team and product direction.
• Managed and mentored 6 direct reports, including backend and frontend engineers of varying seniority, providing regular feedback, writing performance reviews, guiding career progression, and encouraging cross-team collaboration.

Feb 2022 — May 2023

Senior Frontend Engineer II

• Worked on the Billing and Payments teams to develop critical automation tools, enabling our Employer of Record Payroll team to transition from an almost entirely manual monthly payroll process to a nearly fully automated one. This initiative laid the foundation for the company achieving an average payroll accuracy of 99.X% in the following months and reduced the time required to run payroll for our clients from several hundred hours per month (spanning multiple internal Payroll Specialists) to just dozens.
• Worked on horizontal initiatives such as the company Design System, improving critical components with new functionality, UI and UX improvements, bug fixes, and increased testing coverage.
• Developed features and components using React, Next.js, styled-components, React Testing Library, and Cypress for end-to-end testing.

May 2021 — Feb 2022

Nebulab — Senior Frontend Engineer

• Collaborated on the complete rewrite of a popular eCommerce store with thousands of transactions per month into a modern React application based on Next.js.
• Led the rewrite of several critical parts of an eCommerce store with monthly recurring revenue in the seven digits using Vue.js.
• Contributed to several open source initiatives in support of Solidus, the popular Ruby eCommerce framework.

Full-time, Mar 2019 — May 2021

Symphony — Senior Frontend Engineer

• Collaborated on the development of a powerful data analysis application and custom charting library for a software suite used by companies such as Bose, Nissan, BMW, and Johnson & Johnson.
• Led the rewrite of the legacy eCommerce store of a well-funded Silicon Valley startup into a modern React application based on Next.js, drastically improving performance, loading times, and conversions.
• Wrote project proposals, budget reports, and estimates for new potential clients and partners.
• Actively participated in the screening and interview process for new developers.

Full-time, Jan 2018 — Mar 2019

Galeyo* — Full-stack Engineer *formerly East, later Walter Code

• Led the development of custom web applications and APIs for several international clients and corporations.
• Directed and contributed to the development of dozens of WordPress projects spanning from promotional websites to fully-fledged eCommerce stores.
• Introduced new technologies and best practices in the company's development workflow.
• Managed deployments and server configurations for several clients.
• Mentored and onboarded new developers and interns.

Full-time, Sep 2015 — Dec 2017

Pickled Pepper — Consultant & Senior Frontend Engineer

• Worked on the creation of promotional websites using Next.js.
• Delivered SEO compliant solutions that achieved almost perfect scores in the most popular page speed ranking tools.

Contract, 2018 — 2018

Preezie — Consultant & Senior Frontend Engineer

• Worked on the development of an enterprise facing dashboard written in Angular.
• Developed an embeddable custom chat bot widget using React.

Contract, 2017 — 2018