BlackBerry Radar - Senior Full Stack Developer

BlackBerry; Mississauga; Hybrid; CAD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

BlackBerry Radar is seeking a software engineer to help build and optimize backend microservices using Node.js, Express, NATS, Redis, and MySQL on AWS. You will work on data-intensive, real-time systems handling telemetry at scale and contribute to frontend work with React.

You’ll influence architectural decisions, design scalable cloud architectures, and ensure reliability through CI/CD, testing, and observability within a high-trust engineering culture.

Qualifications

• 4–5 years of software development experience.
• Strong backend development experience with microservices.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis).

Responsibilities

• Build and optimize backend microservices using Node.js, Express, NATS, Redis, MySQL, and Elasticsearch on AWS
• Work on data-intensive, real-time systems ingesting telemetry at scale
• Contribute to front-end development using React
• Influence architectural decisions and technical direction across the platform
• Ensure reliability through automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and observability
• Collaborate in a high-trust, engineering-first culture where your work truly matters

Skills

Backend development

SQL & NoSQL

Microservices

AWS

Docker

CI/CD

System design

Communication

Collaboration

Tools

Node.js

Express

NATS

Redis

MySQL

Elasticsearch

React

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Job description

Worker Sub-Type:

Regular

Job Description:

Work Model:

This is a hybrid role, requires 4 days work from Ottawa office and 1 day work from home.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

About Radar

BlackBerry Radar is a rapidly growing IoT platform that enables real-time tracking and analytics for thousands of trailers, containers, and high-value assets across North America. Learn more.

Our platform has achieved strong market traction, with a fast-expanding device footprint and a lean, highly skilled engineering team tackling challenges in big data, cloud architecture, and performance optimization as adoption accelerates.

Radar is at a critical inflection point. We’ve established product-market fit, our install base is scaling quickly, and our platform processes more data each month than ever before. We’re investing heavily in next-generation architecture to support the next five years of innovation and growth.

Why This Role Matters

Every new customer adds more devices, more data, and more opportunities to innovate. We’re expanding our engineering team to build the next generation of Radar’s cloud platform, focusing on:

• High-volume telemetry ingestion and big data pipelines

• Cloud re-architecture for scalability and resilience

• Advanced reporting and analytics

• API expansion and next-gen customer experiences

• Performance and reliability engineering

• Modern DevOps tooling in a microservices environment

Tech Stack

• Backend: Node.js, Express, NATS

• Data: MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch

• Reporting: Flink, Cube.js, StarRocks, Iceberg

• Cloud: AWS

• Frontend: React

• DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions

What You’ll Do

• Build and optimize backend microservices using Node.js, Express, NATS, Redis, MySQL, and Elasticsearch on AWS

• Work on data-intensive, real-time systems ingesting telemetry at scale

• Contribute to front-end development using React

• Influence architectural decisions and technical direction across the platform

• Ensure reliability through automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and observability

• Collaborate in a high-trust, engineering-first culture where your work truly matters

What You Bring

Required:

• 4-5 years of experience in software development

• Strong backend development experience

• SQL + NoSQL experience (MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis)

• Experience building microservices and event-driven systems

• Comfort with AWS, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and modern cloud tooling

• Ability to design and reason about complex system architectures

• Curiosity, ownership, and willingness to dive into unfamiliar problems

• Strong communication and collaboration skills

Preferred:

• Proficiency in JavaScript

• Advanced React experience

• Background in IoT, telematics, or large-scale distributed systems

Why Engineers Love Working at Radar

• High impact — what you build directly drives customer value and product success

• Small team, big reach — startup-style ownership with enterprise stability

• Real engineering challenges — scaling a high-volume IoT platform is genuinely hard and deeply rewarding

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Benefits:

The BlackBerry Employee Benefits programs offer a wide range of benefits that support your physical, financial and personal well-being. BlackBerry remains committed to offering affordable benefits including coverage for medical, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, retirement, employee share purchase program and paid-time-off to those that meet the eligibility requirements.

Disclosure of Position Status:

This job posting is part of a general recruitment effort without a guaranteed position

Disclosure of Artificial Intelligence:

We donot use artificial intelligence (AI)to screen, assess, or select applicants at any stage of our recruitment process. All applications are reviewed and evaluated by our hiring team.