BlackBerry Radar - Senior Full Stack Developer

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.

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.

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.