**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.