BlackBerry Radar - Senior Full Stack Developer

BlackBerry Inc.; Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Paid time off

Job summary

BlackBerry Radar is hiring a software engineer to join a rapidly growing IoT platform team in Ottawa. You will build backend microservices, handle real-time telemetry, and contribute to frontend work with React.

The role emphasizes scalable cloud architecture and reliable DevOps practices. The team focuses on high-volume data pipelines, API expansion, and performance optimization in a hybrid work model with 4 days in Ottawa and 1 day from home.

Qualifications

• 4–5 years of software development experience with backend focus.
• Strong SQL and NoSQL experience (MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis).
• Experience building microservices and event-driven systems.
• Comfort with AWS, Docker, CI/CD, and modern cloud tooling.

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 matters.

Skills

Backend development

SQL & NoSQL

Microservices

AWS & DevOps

JavaScript

Communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Elasticsearch

Redis

MySQL

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 #LI-NR1

Benefits

• 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 do not 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.

BlackBerry provides enterprises and governments the intelligent software and services to power the world around us. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, BlackBerry’s high-performance foundational software enables major automakers and industrial giants alike to unlock transformative applications, drive new revenue streams and launch innovative business models, all without sacrificing safety, security or reliability. And with our deep heritage in Secure Communications, BlackBerry delivers operational resiliency with a comprehensive, highly secure and extensively certified portfolio for mobile fortification, mission-critical communications and critical event management.

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of BlackBerry to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship, status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law. EEO Minorities/Females/Protected Veteran/Disabled BlackBerry strives to create an accessible and inclusive application and selection process and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to job applicants who may require provisions to participate in the selection process.

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