Point of Sale Client Front-End Platform Engineer at Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions in Bentonville, AR

Job description

• Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is seeking a senior client-platform engineer to own and evolve the ELERA point-of-sale client – the Vue 3 and TypeScript application framework behind our fixed-lane, self-checkout, kiosk, specialty, associate-mobile, and customer-display experiences. This is a successor role on a defined architect track: the person hired will be trained to become the architect for the ELERA POS client.
• This is a platform role, not a feature role. Most of the work is not screens. It is the framework other teams build their screens out of: a dependency-injection and plugin system that retailers and partners extend through, a configuration merge chain that resolves customer overrides, a device layer that talks to lane hardware, a legacy Dojo application that must keep shipping beside the modern client, and the build train that releases all of it together.
• The role requires experience building solutions on Vue.js and Java enterprise technologies with a focus on complex browser-side functionality. The ideal candidate will excel in our fast-paced, collaborative, customer-first environment, and is looking for a path into architecture rather than a larger backlog.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and test/debug client UI and client framework code in Vue 3 and TypeScript, and mentor the team doing the same
• Design with other developers in mind – both the internal team and the retailer, partner, and services engineers who extend the platform from outside
• Own and extend the client extensibility model: dependency injection and decorator-based registration, plugin loading, UI slot injection, and the base/TGCS/partner/customer configuration merge chain
• Maintain backward compatibility for plugins and customizations built against earlier framework versions
• Publish versioned shared packages consumed by other teams, with real semantic-versioning and deprecation discipline
• Keep two UI generations shippable at once, migrating the legacy Dojo layer incrementally rather than by flag day
• Extend the device integration layer – scanners, scales, printers, payment terminals, cash recyclers, customer display – including the mock device harness that lets the full client run on a laptop
• Maintain the client release train: hybrid Maven/npm builds, monorepo publishing, Jenkins multi-branch pipelines across the framework dependency chain, and constrained or air-gapped customer environments
• Own client-side quality: unit and component tests under a coverage gate, and a browser-automated BDD suite that gates the build
• Write and defend architecture decision records, component analyses, and solution designs; represent the client stack at the Architecture Review Board
• Maintain the client Self-Enablement Guide and generated extension catalogs, and serve as a technical interface to key technology partners
• Perform unit and functional tests of product features, and resolve unit, functional, and customer- or partner-reported defects across supported release lines
• Provide reasonable estimates, meet deliverables while assisting the team, and enable the team to meet their KPIs
• Use good programming patterns, call out anti-patterns, and handle accelerating change in pursuit of more innovative solutions

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience
• Software Engineer III: 5+ years of professional web development experience. Software Engineer IV: 9+ years of full-stack web development experience, particularly client side
• Strong analytical and TypeScript/OO programming skills, including generics, declaration files, and strict-mode discipline
• 2+ years in Vue 3 or an equivalent modern component framework, at depth: reactivity semantics, routing, and centralized state management
• Experience building shared libraries or frameworks that other teams consume – not only end-user features
• Working knowledge of a dependency-injection / inversion-of-control container (InversifyJS, tsyringe, Angular DI, Spring, or similar) and decorator-based registration; understanding of lifetimes and resolution order
• Deep technical skills in web development technologies (HTML5, JavaScript, TypeScript, SASS, XML/JSON, Vue.js), including module-system fluency (ESM, AMD, UMD) and modern build tooling such as Vite
• Unit testing as a default habit, plus browser automation with at least one of Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium – including the ability to diagnose a flaky test rather than retry it
• Demonstrated ability to work productively inside a large legacy code base without rewriting it
• Experience developing in a Java-based environment, including enterprise/web-based content, sufficient to debug a service you do not own and determine where a defect actually lives
• REST and OpenAPI contract thinking, including a working definition of a breaking change
• Comfort in CI/CD: pipelines, containerized builds, artifact registries, dependency resolution, lockfiles, and transitive version conflicts
• Proficiency with Git at team scale: long-lived release lines, backports, and conflict resolution that does not lose work
• Experience with operating systems – Linux, Windows, iOS or Android; installation, light administration, and simple scripting
• Knowledge of software development concepts, methodology, and life cycle, especially Agile
• Clear technical writing, and a record of documenting decisions that others then followed. Communication is a hiring criterion for this role, not a bonus
• Strong problem determination and debugging skills, attention to detail, and teamwork
• Point-of-sale, kiosk, self-checkout, or other attended/unattended retail systems, and general knowledge of the retail industry domain
• Plugin or extension architectures that third parties build against, and experience designing extension points that outlive their first consumer
• Skills and experience with POS attached devices (scanners, scales, printers, payment terminals, cash recyclers) and duplex device protocols such as WebSocket or STOMP, including retry, reconnect, and half-open connection handling
• Experience debugging a failure that turned out to be in hardware, firmware, or a driver rather than in application code
• Cross-document and cross-context work: iframes, post Message, origin and window-context reasoning, storage scoping
• Working knowledge of Dojo, React, or AngularJS in addition to Vue.js, or comparable experience maintaining a superseded framework in production
• Working knowledge of Docker containers and Spring Boot; knowledge of Swagger and REST design

Skills

Required

• Vue 3
• TypeScript
• JavaScript
• HTML5
• SASS
• XML/JSON
• ESM, AMD, UMD
• Vite
• Unit testing
• Java
• REST
• OpenAPI

Preferred

• Plugin or extension architectures
• WebSocket or STOMP
• Dojo, React, or AngularJS
• Docker
• Spring Boot
• Swagger

Benefits

• Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions, Inc. offers a competitive salary and generous benefits package including the following:
• Group health coverage (medical, dental, & vision)
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Pre-tax spending accounts
• 401(k) plan (with company match)
• Company provided life insurance
• Pet Insurance
• Employee discounts
• Generous paid holiday schedule, paid vacation & sick/personal days