Do the Best Work of Your Life at S45
Join Operators, Bankers and Engineers listing India’s best companies with precision, compliance and real impact
[ 01/05 ] · THE EDGE
We believe there is a lost art of building investment banks that work under real market pressure. A craftsmanship that yields precision, not just performance. A sense of an exceptional, almost magical, quality.
It's difficult to describe this quality with words and impossible to measure it in sprints, but you can feel it when it's there. When a data room links every claim to source. When a pricing model holds up six months after listing. When compliance feels like style, not theater.
To bring back this level of quality, we are building a team where sector bankers, engineers, and AI work as equals. Software won't fix bad banking. Great banking won't scale without great software. We need people who are craftspeople in both worlds, obsessed with getting even the smallest details right.
If that sounds like you, reach out and join us on this quest.
[ 02/05 ] · S45'S MISSION
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Earn trust daily.
Repeat business is the only metric. Clients bet their company on us.
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Evidence beats Opinion
Every claim links to source. Every model shows its math.
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Compliance is a Style.
SEBI, ICDR, LODR are not constraints. They are the rules of craft.
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Simple Stories
Institutional investors reward clarity. Complexity is a liability, not an edge.
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Quality then Speed.
Ship fast, but never ship broken. No shortcuts that blow up later.
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Write first.
Thinking happens in writing. Documentation is not overhead. It is the work.
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Small Loops.
Build, test, close observations, repeat. Weekly sprints beat quarterly plans.
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Security is Sacred.
Client data, price-sensitive information, wall-crossing logs. Zero tolerance for leaks.
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High Bar, Low Ego.
Challenge the work, not the person. Teach generously. Learn constantly.
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Teach the Craft.
Junior hires should do the best work of their career here. Make it repeatable.
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Measure What Matters.
Mandate-to-DRHP days. Observation closure rate. Post-listing liquidity for SME.
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India first, global grade.
Built for Indian capital markets. Quality benchmarked against the world's best.
[ 03/05 ] · OPEN ROLES
Five Positions Open
Find Your Role
We're hiring across AI, engineering, finance, compliance and operations.
Don't see a perfect fit? Send us your best work.
If you set a high bar and ship with discipline, we want to meet you.
[ 04/05 ] · THE PROCESS
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Send Your Best Work.
Portfolio, GitHub, writing samples, deals you've shipped, models you've built. Show, don't tell.
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Problem Solve With A Founder.
Work session on a real S45 problem. Pricing, drafting, compliance, product, engineering. Paid if it takes more than two hours.
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References And Network Signals.
We ask people we trust. Strong recommendations accelerate everything.
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Offer That Is Fast And Tied To Scope.
If there's a fit, you'll know within a week. Compensation reflects ownership and impact
[ 05/05 ] · EXPECTATIONS
What you can expect
S45’s mission is to help Indian companies go public with speed, evidence, and trust. To turn that ambition into reality, we operate based on a set of core principles that keep us focused.
Real Ownership of Outcomes.
Your work ships to SEBI, exchanges, institutional investors and the public.
Rapid Learning
Across AI, technology, finance, regulation and market dynamics. Compress a decade into three years.
Direct Access to Founders
Strategy, product, operations. No layers. No politics.
Competitive Compensation with Outcome Upside.
Equity grants tied to company milestones and personal impact.
A Portfolio You Will Be Proud To Show.
Companies you helped take public. Models you built. Systems you shipped.
High Standards, Kind Culture.
We demand excellence and give you the support to deliver it.
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