Kadoa careers: remote jobs, culture and where they hire

Kadoa announced a funding round on March 7, 2025, led by Swiss deep tech investor Vi Partners with participation from Fyrfly Venture Partners; the amount was not disclosed. The company said it would use the round to double the team and accelerate development of its data platform, which was already serving leading hedge funds, private equity firms and asset managers.

Kadoa (kadoa.com) builds the web data layer for finance: AI coding agents that build, monitor and repair deterministic ETL pipelines, turning websites, PDFs and other unstructured public sources into reliable datasets for investment firms. Instead of engineers hand-writing a brittle scraper per source, an analyst points Kadoa at a source and the platform extracts, transforms and loads the data into a spreadsheet or warehouse, with self-healing scrapers and audit trails underneath. The company says it serves many of the world's top investment firms, and a June 2026 company post describes the client base as tier 1 multi-strategy funds, market makers, private equity firms, investment banks and sovereign wealth funds. Compliance is built in: automated controls for robots.txt, PII bans and source allow lists, with full audit logs of who scraped what and when.

Co-founders Adrian Krebs and Johannes Engler are engineers who worked together at a Swiss bank and experimented with GPT-3 for generating and maintaining web scraper code; their product search engine side project gained traction on Reddit and Hacker News, and Tavis Lochhead (ex Cisco and eBay) reached out and joined as the third co-founder. Kadoa launched publicly with a Show HN for fully autonomous GPT-4 web scrapers in April 2023 and reported reaching CHF 100K ARR within 8 months. The company is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland with a distributed team; its LinkedIn profile counts 13 employees as of 2026.

Adrian Krebs, Co-founder and CEO. Engineer who worked at a Swiss bank, where he saw data teams spend most of their time building and fixing pipelines by hand. Built the shopping guide Looria before Kadoa, holds a MAS in Information Technology from Bern University of Applied Sciences, and posted the Show HN that launched Kadoa publicly in April 2023.

Johannes Engler, Co-founder and CTO. Engineer who worked with Adrian Krebs at a Swiss bank and built side projects with him, including the GPT-3 experiments for generating and maintaining scraper code that became Kadoa.

Tavis Lochhead, Co-founder and CRO. Spent his earlier career in business roles at tech companies including Cisco and eBay, building side projects along the way, which is how he met Krebs and Engler before teaming up on Kadoa.

The work sits at the sharp end of applied AI in finance: designing the infrastructure behind coding agents (browser automation, data pipelines, LLM orchestration) that run mission-critical production pipelines for hedge funds and asset managers. The founders are explicit that reliability is the product: in their words, AI gets attention, but reliability closes deals, and about 70 percent of the work is production engineering such as orchestration, validation, retries and human-in-the-loop tooling.

It is a small team with minimal distance between the code you write and the customers who use it: engineers work directly with the founders and with customers, and own large areas of the product. The careers page promises a lean team, high autonomy and a no-bullshit culture. The roles are fully remote with flexible working hours and vacation, competitive salary and equity, and regular team events and off-sites.

All three founders have spent years writing web scraping and ETL software and, per the careers page, still do it almost every single day. The company describes itself as growing fast with a drama-free, distraction-light environment where builders can focus on building, and says it cares about craftsmanship across engineering, design and customer support alike.

The team is distributed with headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, and job postings ask for effective communication skills in a digital, remote-first environment. Kadoa also publishes open datasets and a technical blog, and its founders talk openly about the economics and ethics of web scraping, including built-in compliance controls rather than case-by-case reviews.

All roles are listed at https://www.kadoa.com/careers. As of October 2026 there are two openings, both fully remote: a Senior Software Engineer (TypeScript, Node.js, Python, Docker, Kubernetes, GCP, SQL, with LLM production experience and data pipeline background) and a Web Scraping Engineer (3+ years with Puppeteer, Playwright or Selenium, plus anti-bot, proxy and browser fingerprinting expertise). Both postings mention prior startup experience as desirable, and finance or hedge fund background is a nice to have for the scraping role.

Applications go through a short form linked from each posting (a Google Form as of October 2026) rather than a cover letter by email; the founders note their inbox is drowning in AI-generated applications. Salary ranges are not published; the postings say competitive salary and equity. If no role fits, the careers page invites speculative applications at careers@kadoa.com.