WordPress Developer

About us Peregrine Livefoods is one of the UK’s most respected specialist suppliers for reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates, breeding fresh livefood on our Essex farm every day. We’re growing the e-commerce team behind Livefoods Direct and looking for a Performance Marketing Manager to drive efficient customer acquisition and revenue through paid media. 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 pluginsExtend WooCommerce: trade and tiered pricing, customer groups, delivery-date and courier logic, subscriptions and recurring orders, bulk ordering and reorder toolsBuild internal web tools, such as sales order entry and other staff-facing front-ends over ERP and business dataBuild and maintain integrations using Flowgear, REST APIs and webhooks, connecting WooCommerce, Syspro, courier platforms and marketing toolsOwn tracking: the GA4 e-commerce data layer and GTM containers, kept clean across production and staging and checked after every releaseShip every change through our release process (Git, semantic versioning, changelogs, staging first), one-line fixes includedWrite and optimise MySQL for product data, reporting, bulk updates, imports and feedsTest core, theme and plugin updates on staging, and triage and fix site issuesOwn front-end quality: responsive layouts, Core Web Vitals, page speed and accessibilityBuild landing pages, campaign assets and on-page SEO changes briefed by our Digital Trading Manager What you'll bring 3+ years' commercial WordPress development, including at least 2 years on WooCommerceStrong PHP, JavaScript, HTML and CSSExperience with high-SKU B2C e-commerce, including subscription modelsReal WooCommerce development, not just plugin configuration: hooks, filters, custom endpoints and your own pluginsDisciplined Git habits (branches, meaningful commits, versioned releases) and comfort working staging-firstConfident SQL beyond basic SELECTs: joins, aggregates and careful bulk updatesWorking knowledge of GA4 e-commerce events and data layer implementationThe ability to work independently, prioritise across several brands, and explain technical trade-offs to non-technical colleagues Nice to have Google Tag Manager: containers, triggers, cross-domain and consent setupERP integration experience (Syspro ideally, but SAP, Dynamics or NetSuite count) or iPaaS tools like Flowgear, Zapier or MakeWooCommerce Subscriptions or other recurring-order toolsUX/CRO experience: wireframing, A/B testing, acting on analyticsHosting and server admin, deployments, backups and security hardeningWPML, multisite or multi-brand setups, and marketplace feeds (Amazon, eBay) Please note before applying This role needs you in our Ongar office, It also needs hands-on WooCommerce development at the hooks-and-filters level and solid Git and staging-first discipline. These are essential, not a bonus. How we'll measure success All changes shipped staging-first · Core Web Vitals passing on key templates · Site issues resolved within agreed SLAs · Zero tracking regressions after releases · Delivery against the development roadmap Due to our rural location you must be able to get to site. There is no public transport in our area. Salary £40,000 per annum Core Values Our business is like no other, and as such we hold our values close to our decisions. We lookout for people like us; people who put our customers at the heart of everything they do. Together we aim to ensure that they get top-notch service every time. In fact, that's one of our core values: Always Delivering. We want our people to be Knowledgeable and share in their expertise, have oodles of Positivity and be Honest in everything they do. So, if these values match yours, you're a perfect fit for us here at Peregrine Livefoods. We have some non-negotiables here at Peregrine, we hold our Core Values close to our decisions. To find out more about us visit www.peregrine.co.uk We regret that due to current volumes, we are unable to acknowledge every application. All successful candidates will be contacted as soon as possible. If you are contacted, please note that, as part of the recruitment process, you will be required to provide us with proof of identity and proof of eligibility to work in the UK. By applying you are consenting for us to use your data in accordance with the General Data _ Protection Regulations. We will only use your data for the business need of assessing your suitability for the position advertised._ The Company is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to ensuring that all job applicants are treated equally, without discrimination because of gender, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital or civil partner status or pregnancy and maternity. We therefore positively encourage applications from all suitably qualified and eligible job applicants.