BlackBerry Radar - Senior Full Stack Developer

Job summary

You will build and optimize backend microservices and data-intensive systems for a high-volume IoT platform. You will also contribute to front-end development using React and influence architectural decisions across the platform.

Job details

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: 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.

What you’ll do

You will build and optimize backend microservices and data-intensive systems for a high-volume IoT platform. You will also contribute to front-end development using React and influence architectural decisions across the platform.

Requirements

Candidates must have 4-5 years of software development experience with strong backend skills in SQL and NoSQL databases. Proficiency in cloud tooling, microservices, and event-driven systems is required.

Benefits

• Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Life insurance • Disability insurance • Retirement plan • Employee share purchase program • Paid time off

Listed skills

• Kubernetes · Preferred
• MySQL · Preferred
• Node.js · Preferred
• CI/CD · Preferred
• Redis · Preferred
• Docker · Preferred
• React · Preferred
• Amazon Web Services · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Node.js
• Express
• NATS
• MySQL
• Redis
• Elasticsearch
• React
• AWS
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• GitHub Actions
• Microservices
• Big data
• Cloud architecture
• Telemetry
• CI/CD
• Influencing Skills
• Pipelines
• Back End (Software Engineering)
• Influencing Without Authority
• Observability
• Curiosity
• Time Off Management
• Resilience
• JavaScript (Programming Language)
• Application Programming Interface (API)
• Artificial Intelligence
• Amazon Web Services
• Software Development
• Test Automation
• Big Data
• Blackberry
• Cloud Computing Architecture
• Communication
• DevOps
• Event-Driven Programming
• Front End Design
• Github
• Scalability
• Innovation
• Lean Manufacturing
• Node.js (Javascript Library)
• NoSQL
• Reliability Engineering
• SQL (Programming Language)
• Tooling
• Front End (Software Engineering)
• Collaboration
• Reliability
• Internet Of Things (IoT)

Job areas

• Software
• Technology
• Engineering
• Data & Analytics
• Full Stack Developer
• Web and Multimedia Developers
• Software Developers