Wordpress/WooCommerce Web Developer

Our developers don’t stop at the storefront. You’ll also build the internal tools that keep the business running: connecting our sites to our Syspro ERP, building staff-facing tools like sales order entry, and automating workflows with Flowgear and custom APIs.

You’ll work directly with our senior web developer and ERP developer, with real ownership of day-to-day development across our sites. If you like owning problems end-to-end rather than picking off tickets, you’ll fit right in. This is a Hybrid role with site working 3 days a week - Will you be able to reliably commute to Ongar CM5 for this job?

What you’ll do

• Develop, maintain and improve multiple Wordpress/Woocommerce sites, including our in-house custom plugins
• Extend WooCommerce functionality - trade/tiered pricing, customer groups, delivery-date and courier logic, subscriptions/recurring orders, bulk ordering and reorder tools
• Build internal web tools that make the business run faster - like sales order entry and other staff-facing front-ends over our ERP and business data
• Build integrations and automations between systems using Flowgear, REST APIs and webhooks - connecting WooCommerce, our ERP/stock system, courier platforms and marketing tools
• Work within our structured release process - Git, semantic versioning, changelogs, staging-first deployments - every change, including one-line fixes
• Write and optimise SQL against MySQL for product data, reporting, bulk updates and clean-up; support product imports and feeds
• Test WooCommerce core, theme and plugin updates on staging; triage and fix front-line site issues
• Own front-end quality - responsive layouts, Core Web Vitals, page speed, accessibility
• Support marketing with landing pages, campaign builds and on-page SEO, * High-SKU, B2B or wholesale e-commerce; trade accounts or tiered pricing
• ERP integration experience (Syspro ideal, but any - SAP, Dynamics, NetSuite) or iPaaS/automation platforms like Flowgear, Zapier or Make
• WooCommerce Subscriptions or other recurring-order tooling
• UX/CRO exposure: wireframing, A/B testing, acting on analytics
• Hosting/server administration, deployments, backups, security hardening
• WPML/multilingual, multi-site or multi-brand setups; marketplace feeds (Amazon, eBay)

Why join Peregrine

• Real ownership; you’ll ship features that move the whole business, not just tickets off a backlog
• A small, senior team with direct access to the developers and decision-makers who built these systems
• Interesting, unusual problems you won’t find at a typical e-commerce shop

Bonus points

A genuine interest in reptiles, aquatics or exotic pets - it’s genuinely useful here (and you’ll fit right in with the rest of us).

• 3+ years building commercially with WordPress, including 2+ years deep in WooCommerce
• Strong across PHP, JavaScript, HTML and CSS
• You’ve properly customised WooCommerce - hooks, filters, custom endpoints, your own plugins - not just configured existing ones
• Disciplined in Git: branches, meaningful commits, versioned releases, staging-first
• Confident in SQL beyond basic SELECTs - joins, aggregates, careful bulk updates
• Comfortable working independently across multiple brands, and explaining technical trade-offs to non-technical colleagues

Pulled from the full job description

• Referral programme
• Employee discount
• Free parking
• Store discount
• Discounted or free food
• Casual dress
• Health & wellbeing programme, * Casual dress
• Discounted or free food
• Employee discount
• Free flu jabs
• Free parking
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Referral programme
• Store discount

Peregrine is the UK’s largest wholesaler of reptile products and live foods, running multiple WooCommerce sites across our trade and consumer brands. Delivery-date logic, courier cut-offs, shipping exclusions, subscriptions and trade pricing - much of it powered by plugins we build and maintain ourselves.