Parallel Partners
Parallel Partners places IT professionals into permanent roles across financial services and trading - the domain where infrastructure failure is measured in microseconds and billions of dollars. Since 1995, they've built deep relationships with Fortune 500 firms, investment banks, hedge funds, proprietary trading shops, and market data vendors. The 90% repeat business rate reflects the specificity required: they understand the technical stack from high-frequency trading systems and quantitative engineering through open source infrastructure, risk management platforms, and algorithmic execution. The firm operates nationwide from Chicago, acquired by Next Step Systems in 2014. Their placement work spans fixed income, FX, equities, and derivatives markets - verticals where the engineering talent gap is acute and the cost of hiring wrong is immediate. They've built their practice by placing technologists who can navigate both the domain complexity of modern trading infrastructure and the operational rigor those environments demand.
Parallel Partners places IT professionals into permanent roles across financial services and trading - the domain where infrastructure failure is measured in microseconds and billions of dollars. Since 1995, they've built deep relationships with Fortune 500 firms, investment banks, hedge funds, proprietary trading shops, and market data vendors. The 90% repeat business rate reflects the specificity required: they understand the technical stack from high-frequency trading systems and quantitative engineering through open source infrastructure, risk management platforms, and algorithmic execution.
The firm operates nationwide from Chicago, acquired by Next Step Systems in 2014. Their placement work spans fixed income, FX, equities, and derivatives markets - verticals where the engineering talent gap is acute and the cost of hiring wrong is immediate. They've built their practice by placing technologists who can navigate both the domain complexity of modern trading infrastructure and the operational rigor those environments demand.