Netherlands insurance and utilities comparison platform serving 20M annual visitors
Independer is a mature consumer comparison site operating in insurance, energy, mortgages, and telecoms across the Netherlands since 1999. The tech stack reveals a legacy-to-cloud transition: Siebel CRM remains central, but Azure adoption and active projects around platform transformation and cloud migration signal engineering effort to modernize. Hiring accelerates across mid and senior levels with engineering, product, and data roles—consistent with a push to replace aging components and improve system performance.
Independer operates the largest independent comparison and advice platform in the Netherlands, helping consumers navigate fixed-cost decisions across insurance, energy, mortgages, mobile, internet, and solar products. The platform processes over 6 million comparisons annually across approximately 20 million website visits per year, and channels roughly 1 in 5 new health and car insurance policies in the country. Owned by DPG Media since 2018, the company combines a consumer-facing marketplace with expert analysis and product transparency. Operations span engineering, marketing, product, data, claims, and finance teams based in Hilversum.
Independer runs on .NET and C# for backend services, Angular and TypeScript for frontend, Siebel CRM for customer relationship management, Azure for cloud infrastructure, Databricks and Apache Spark for data processing, and GitHub Actions for CI/CD. Google Analytics and Google Ads handle marketing analytics and paid campaigns.
Active projects include platform transformation, cloud migration to Azure, legacy component modernization, product stack optimization, website performance optimization, and improvements to the claims process and customer order management systems.
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