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How Indie hires
Truth index
A 95/100
Median time to fill
134 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Indie scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 18 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 134 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
News
10 Indie Games That Are Must-plays in 2026
A top 10 list of the best and most impactful independently developed games of 2026.
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3 Indie Rock Albums That Are More Cathartic Than Going to a Rage Room
These three indie rock albums are perfect choices when settling in for a little emotional catharsis, guaranteed to hit where it hurts.
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Indie devs clash in dispute over 'copying' games about peeling potatoes
Two indie developers are in a dispute over games about peeling potatoes, with one creator accusing the other of copying his idea with AI.
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After IndexNow: 6 Launch Channels Indie Founders Skip, and How to Hit Them in a Weekend
IndexNow pings every URL, then launch week goes silent. Here are six distribution channels solo founders skip, with weekend time budgets for each.
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Indie App Spotlight: 'CloudGear' brings all cloud gaming platforms into one tvOS app
Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app...
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Show HN volume increased 6x since ChatGPT
Show HN submissions peaked at 6.3x their ChatGPT-launch level, while the number of successful submissions remained relatively flat.
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Simplify quantum photonics: Visible DFB lasers enable scalable architectures
Laser subsystems are a constraint in scaling quantum technologies, but advances in visible distributed feedback (DFB) lasers provide an alternative that offers intrinsic single...
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Play Biomes Online
Play Biomes online on Glitch. An exiled physicist must save the world after private pocket-dimension Biomes begin collapsing time and...
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Indie over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
45
Postings analysed
15
Stack modernity
78/100AI adopter
Languages
Python87%
C++33%
Embedded C13%
Java13%
Frameworks & libraries
UVM13%
Cloud & platforms
RTOS33%
Linux20%
GitLab CI20%
AWS7%
AI & ML
ChatGPT7%
Claude7%
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Full Indie tech stack
45 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$92k
Typical range
$92k
Open positions
1
1
Jobs
Middle
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 1 | $92k | $92k |
Highest paying role
Embedded Systems Software Engineer
$92k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
73/100
Growing
Open positions
18
4 opened / 3 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
122 days
faster than 13% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~2 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Hardware
36% ▼
Sales
18% ▲
QA
9% ▼
Security
9% ▲
Administrative
9% ▲
Management
9% ▲
Activity Timeline
New location: Schlieren
Oct 2026
Added Prometheus to stack
Oct 2026
Added FreeRTOS to stack
Oct 2026
Added Cursor to stack
Oct 2026
Added Cortex to stack
Oct 2026
Added Claude to stack
Oct 2026
Added ChatGPT to stack
Oct 2026
New location: Argentina
Sep 2026
New location: Aliso Viejo
Sep 2026
New location: Frankfurt am Main
Sep 2026
Added Threat Modeling to stack
Sep 2026
Added OpenSSL to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
29
Hiring now
10
Countries
14
Busiest office
Aliso Viejo
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Aliso Viejo
United States
HQ
Company headquarters
3 open roles 67% engineering
hires for DevOps, Hardware, Industrial Engineering
indie, 32 Journey, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656
Toronto
Canada
Engineering / R&D
Toronto
3 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering $92k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware, Security
105 Commerce Valley Drive West Markham, Ontario, L3T 7W3, Canada
Córdoba
Argentina
Regional office
Aliso Viejo
3 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 67% engineering
hires for Hardware, Industrial Engineering
Schlieren
Switzerland
Regional office
Schlieren
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50% engineering
hires for QA, Field & Service
Rabat
Morocco
Engineering / R&D
Morocco
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering
hires for Hardware
Munich
Germany
Regional office
Munich, Germany
1 open roles 100% engineering
hires for Networking
Prof.-Messerschmitt-Str. 3a, 85579 Neubiberg
Nuremberg
Germany
Regional office
Nuremberg, Germany
1 open roles 100% engineering
hires for Hardware
Hugo-Junkers-Str. 9, 90411 Nuremberg
Frankfurt am Main
Germany
Regional office
Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days
hires for Administrative
15236 Frankfurt (Oder)
Dresden
Germany
Regional office
Dresden, Germany
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days
hires for Management
01324 Dresden
Chennai
India
Sales office
India
1 open roles 100% engineering
hires for Hardware
Shanghai
China
Regional office
indie Micro, Shanghai City
Room 407C-D, Building No. 6555, Dongchuan Road, Minghang District, Shanghai City, PRC China
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Regional office
Buenos Aires
Seoul
South Korea
Regional office
South Korea Remote
City Airport Tower Bld., 24FTeheran-ro 87-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea, 06164
Taipei
Taiwan
Regional office
Taiwan Remote
8F, No. 50, Ln. 10, Jihu Rd., Neihu Dist.,, Taipei City 114066, Taiwan
San Jose
United States
Regional office
San Jose, CA
25 Metro Drive, Suite 600,, San Jose, CA, 95110
Quebec
Canada
Regional office
Quebec City - Ville de Québec
2716 Einstein St., Quebec City, Quebec, G1P 4S8, Canada
Haifa
Israel
Regional office
Haifa, Israel
5 Nachum Het St.,
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Regional office
Edinburgh, Scotland
80 Hanover Street, 4th floor, EH21EL, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Petah Tikva
Israel
Regional office
Tel-Aviv
Nagpur
India
Regional office
LaserQuant Technology Pvt Ltd,
Phoenix
United States
Regional office
Avnet
2211 South 47th Street, Phoenix, AZ 85034
Wuxi
China
Regional office
Wuxi, China
Room C502, Building 530, Qingyuan Road, Xinwu District, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, China
Scottsdale
United States
Regional office
WPG Americas Inc.
Suite A-170, Scottsdale, AZ 85260
El Segundo
United States
Regional office
Symmetry Electronics
222 N. Pacific Coast Highway, 10th Floor, El Segundo, CA 90245
Legnano
Italy
Regional office
AMS Technologies S.r.l.
Via Copernico, 21, 20025 Legnano (MI) – Italia
Auburn Hills
United States
Regional office
Trilogy, United States
Trilogy, 815 N Opdyke Road, Auburn Hills, MI 48326
Mansfield
United States
Regional office
Mouser Electronics, Inc.
1000 North Main Street, Mansfield, TX 76063
Unterschleißheim
Germany
Sales office
Prisma Sales Service GmbH
40, Carl-von-linde str., Unterschleißheim, Bayern, 85716, Germany
Vienna
Austria
Regional office
Viena, Austria
Jobs
≈ $31k – $74k per year (Estimated) • In office • 1+ year exp • Bachelor's Degree • Córdoba
C
Embedded C
AI/ML
Cursor
Claude
ChatGPT
DevOps
RTOS
Prometheus
Git
Cortex
IoT
FreeRTOS
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≈ $109k – $252k per year (Estimated) • In office • 3+ years exp • Master's Degree • Rabat
SystemVerilog
UVM
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≈ $92k – $181k per year (Estimated) • In office • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Aliso Viejo
Python
Verilog
CI/CD
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≈ $91k – $241k per year (Estimated) • In office • 7+ years exp • Córdoba
Python
C++
SystemVerilog
Perl
UVM
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≈ $17k – $42k per year (Estimated) • In office • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Chennai
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≈ $74k – $155k per year (Estimated) • In office • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Toronto
Python
Computer Vision
DevOps
RTOS
Cybersecurity
Threat Modeling
Cryptography
OpenSSL
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$63k – $91k per year • In office • 4+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Toronto
Python
Computer Vision
DevOps
RTOS
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≈ $76k – $167k per year (Estimated) • In office • 4+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Toronto
Python
C++
Computer Vision
DevOps
RTOS
Linux
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≈ $108k – $210k per year (Estimated) • In office • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Aliso Viejo
Python
Java
GitLab CI
CI/CD
Jenkins
Git
Docker
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≈ $80k – $145k per year (Estimated) • In office • Bachelor's Degree • Nuremberg
Python
MATLAB
CI/CD
Jenkins
Git
Gerrit
Management
Agile
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≈ $45k – $129k per year (Estimated) • In office • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Munich
Python
Terraform
Ansible
VMWare
SLURM
Azure
AWS
HPC
TCP/IP
DNS
BGP
OSPF
Cybersecurity
FortiGate
ISO 27001
pfSense
GDPR
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