Blackberry Radar - Senior Full Stack Developer

**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.