BlackBerry Radar- Senior Full Stack Developer
At a glance
Senior Full-stack Engineering role at BlackBerry. Ottawa · full-time · CA$108,750–CA$152,250 base.
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What you'll do
- Build and tune Node.js services with Express, NATS, Redis, MySQL and Elasticsearch on AWS
- Handle real-time telemetry flows and other systems processing large volumes of data
- Add React features while helping shape platform architecture and technical choices
- Strengthen reliability with automated tests, delivery pipelines, monitoring and observability
What you bring
- You bring strong backend development experience and have worked with SQL and NoSQL stores such as MySQL or Elasticsearch
- You have built microservices and event-driven systems
- You can work with AWS, Docker and CI/CD pipelines, and reason through complex system designs
Who this fits
This senior full-stack role suits an engineer comfortable working across backend services, data-heavy systems and React. The position is based in Ottawa and is scheduled for forty hours per week.
From the employer
Worker Sub-Type:
Regular
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.
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.