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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Onsite
Worker Sub-Type:
Regular
Job Description:
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 - $158,750.00
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.