BlackBerry Radar- Senior Full Stack Developer

QNX; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 152,000 - 213,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

VIP bonus program

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

BlackBerry Radar is seeking a skilled backend engineer to help build and optimize real-time telemetry pipelines and microservices on AWS. You will contribute to data-intensive systems and front-end work with React, shaping the platform’s architecture and reliability practices.

You will join a lean, high-performing engineering team delivering scalable, observable, and high-availability solutions for North American customers. Competitive compensation and benefits are provided.

Qualifications

• Strong backend development experience.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis).
• Experience building microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Proficiency with AWS, Docker, CI/CD pipelines and modern cloud tooling.
• Ability to design and reason about complex system architectures.
• Curiosity, ownership, and willingness to tackle unfamiliar problems.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

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 architecture

Curiosity ownership

Communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

AWS

Job description

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.

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Job Description

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

• 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.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Compensation Hiring Base Salary Range

$108,750.00 - $152,250.00

Please be advised that the compensation hiring range indicated herein is provided solely as a good-faith estimate of expected base compensation for the position. The actual compensation offered will be determined at the time of hire and is contingent upon multiple factors, including but not limited to the candidate’s qualifications, relevant experience, demonstrated skills, and results of assessments conducted during the hiring process.

Bonus

The BlackBerry Variable Incentive Pay (VIP) program is an organization-wide bonus incentive program which aims to reward full-time eligible employees for their contribution to BlackBerry’s success. VIP payments are made in addition to base salary and factor in company’s performance as a way for employees to share in BlackBerry’s achievements.

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 is an active opening. We are seeking to fill this position immediately

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.