Point of Sale Client Platform Engineer

Socket.dev; Bentonville (AR); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Group health coverage

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 0

Job summary

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is seeking a senior client-platform engineer to own and evolve the ELERA POS client, a Vue 3 and TypeScript application framework powering fixed-lane, self-checkout, kiosk, and other experiences. This is a successor role on an architect track, developing into the architect for the ELERA POS client.

The role centers on platform work—designing a dependency-injection/plugin system, configuration merge, device integration, and a dual UI strategy with the legacy Dojo

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of professional web development; Senior track may require 9+ years.
• Strong TypeScript/OO programming skills with generics and declaration files.
• 2+ years in Vue 3 with deep knowledge of reactivity, routing, and state management.
• Experience building shared libraries or frameworks consumed by multiple teams.
• Familiarity with dependency-injection containers and decorator-based registration.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test/debug client UI and framework code in Vue 3 and TypeScript, mentor team.
• Design with internal teams and external retailers/partners in mind.
• Own and extend client extensibility model and configuration merge chain.
• Maintain backward compatibility for plugins and customizations.
• Publish versioned shared packages with semantic versioning and deprecation discipline.
• Keep two UI generations shippable while migrating the Dojo layer incrementally.
• Extend device integration layer for scanners, printers, POS terminals, etc.
• Own client release train with hybrid Maven/npm builds and Jenkins pipelines.
• Maintain client quality with unit tests and a browser-automation suite.
• Write architecture decisions and participate in Architecture Review Board.

Skills

Vue 3

TypeScript

Dependency Injection

REST/OpenAPI

Git

Java enterprise

Unit testing

Architecture mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Tools

Vite

Jenkins

Maven/npm

Docker

Swagger

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

Required Skills

• 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

Preferred Skills

• 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

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is a dynamic billion-dollar global company based in Research Triangle Park, NC, providing retail store solutions to your favorite brands. Have you ever been in a hurry and made use of the self-checkout at Lowe's Foods, earned fuel rewards at Kroger, or just paid for purchases at retailers such as Walmart, Michaels, Carrefour, The Gap, Calvin Klein, Boots, Cencosud, BJ's, or Costco? These are just a few examples of our in-store solutions and impressive customer base that made us the world's installed market share leader.

The nature of retail is changing quickly, so if you share our 'Together Commerce' vision of a seamless two-way, participatory shopping experience, let's get together to drive the new economy. 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

EEO

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer that evaluates qualified applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, religious creed, disability, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, national origin, race, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation or any other protected factor. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process should email [e-mail] to request an accommodation.

DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION

We at Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions firmly believe that our people are an integral part to the success of our customers. Furthermore, we're committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for all our people as highlighted by our 5 Core Principles (Create Outreach, Foster Belonging, Unleash Opportunity, Diverse Cultural Engagement and Culture of Transparency). We're passionate about our customers the retail industry and becoming a more responsible company as we help create a brighter future.