WordPress & WooCommerce Developer
- Peregrine Livefoods
- Essex, UK
- 02/10/2026
Job Description
About the role
You'll own day-to-day development across our WordPress/WooCommerce trade and consumer sites and our internal web tools. You'll work closely with our Senior Web Developer and ERP Developer. The work covers storefront and plugin development, WooCommerce customisation, tracking, and internal tools that connect to Syspro ERP and our other business systems.
What you'll do
- Develop, maintain and improve several WordPress/WooCommerce sites, including our own custom plugins
- Extend WooCommerce: trade and tiered pricing, customer groups, delivery-date and courier logic, subscriptions and recurring orders, bulk ordering and reorder tools
- Build internal web tools, such as sales order entry and other staff-facing front-ends over ERP and business data
- Build and maintain integrations using Flowgear, REST APIs and webhooks, connecting WooCommerce, Syspro, courier platforms and marketing tools
- Own tracking: the GA4 e-commerce data layer and GTM containers, kept clean across production and staging and checked after every release
- Ship every change through our release process (Git, semantic versioning, changelogs, staging first), one-line fixes included
- Write and optimise MySQL for product data, reporting, bulk updates, imports and feeds
- Test core, theme and plugin updates on staging, and triage and fix site issues
- Own front-end quality: responsive layouts, Core Web Vitals, page speed and accessibility
- Build landing pages, campaign assets and on-page SEO changes briefed by our Digital Trading Manager
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About Peregrine Livefoods
Peregrine Livefoods has a rich history in the weird and wonderful world of exotic animals. As a team, we aim to nurture passions and develop careers across a whole range of departments.
We have been Europe’s largest reptile wholesaler for decades and as a result, our diverse team is filled with experts from business to zoology. Our dynamic work environment allows every individual to grow their industry knowledge, regardless of prior experience. We aim to take the title of Europe’s largest exotics wholesaler soon and as a result will be expanding into aquatics and aviculture industries. This presents itself with a spectrum of learning and development opportunities for all members of staff across all departments.
We work around the clock to keep the UK reptile industry ticking. Our customers, our livestock and our livefoods rely on us as a company to ensure their needs are fulfilled, giving the entire workforce a common goal. Every position within Peregrine Livefoods exists to support another and every employee is valued equally.
At Peregrine Livefoods we embrace 4 core values that encompasses our company vision. Members of our team will be expected to uphold these values to ensure we keep our progressive and welcoming work ethos. These core values are:
Positivity: No matter how good we are, our passion to be the best means we embrace change and always strive to be better
Honesty: We are always honest with each other and our customers. With honesty comes confidence and trust.
Knowledge: We openly seek to share our knowledge because we are all in this together.
Always delivering: We are a proactive team that is always honouring our commitments and promises to those around us.