Creative WebGL Developer (Three.js / React Three Fiber / React)
Posted 4 days ago by Templeton & Partners - Innovative & Inclusive Hiring Solutions
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Creative WebGL Developer involves creating immersive, real-time web experiences for a major media company, focusing on high-impact campaign work rather than product maintenance. The developer will collaborate with designers and technologists to bring bold concepts to life using WebGL and related technologies. This position emphasizes performance, creativity, and the ability to translate ideas into engaging web experiences. The role is a 12-month contract with hybrid working arrangements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build immersive, real-time WebGL moments for global campaign launches
- Take ideas from concept to launch: prototype, iterate, ship —without losing the magic
- Create scroll-driven interactive storytelling that feels smooth, cinematic, and intentional
- Partner day-to-day with designers, motion artists, and creative technologists
- Make ambitious 3D run beautifully: optimize scenes, assets, and pipelines for desktop + mobile
- Experiment with animation, shaders, lighting, and real-time rendering to push the work further
Key Skills:
- Strong fundamentals in JavaScript / TypeScript
- A portfolio showing WebGL / real-time 3D work (campaigns, labs, interactive sites—anything goes)
- Knowledge of profiling, optimisation, and performance constraints in the browser
- Ability to translate a creative idea into a build: taste + technical execution
- Comfortable in a fast-paced, idea-led environment where quality matters
- Nice-to-haves: GLSL / shader experience, motion / animation background, experimental interactive work, agency / studio experience on campaign-led builds
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London Area
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Build web experiences people can’t stop sharing. We’re partnering with a well-known, well-trusted major Media company at the intersection of technology, storytelling, and global brand campaigns —and we’re hiring a Creative WebGL Developer to turn bold concepts into immersive, real-time work on the modern web. This isn’t product maintenance. It’s high-impact, visually led campaign work —the kind that gets seen (and felt) by millions. If you treat the browser like a canvas (not just a container) and you care about craft, performance, and wow-factor , you’ll feel at home here.
What you’ll be doing
- Build immersive, real-time WebGL moments for global campaign launches
- Take ideas from concept to launch: prototype, iterate, ship —without losing the magic
- Create scroll-driven interactive storytelling that feels smooth, cinematic, and intentional
- Partner day-to-day with designers, motion artists, and creative technologists
- Make ambitious 3D run beautifully: optimize scenes, assets, and pipelines for desktop + mobile
- Experiment with animation, shaders, lighting, and real-time rendering to push the work further
Tech you’ll use
- Next.js (preferred) or Astro for performance-first builds
- Three.js + React Three Fiber (+ @react-three/drei )
- GSAP (ScrollTrigger is a strong plus)
- Blender pipelines (glTF / GLB workflows)
What we’re looking for
- Strong fundamentals in JavaScript / TypeScript
- A portfolio showing WebGL / real-time 3D work (campaigns, labs, interactive sites—anything goes)
- You know how to keep things fast: profiling, optimisation, and performance constraints in the browser
- You can translate a creative idea into a build: taste + technical execution
- Comfortable in a fast-paced, idea-led environment where quality matters
Nice-to-haves (not deal-breakers)
- GLSL / shader experience
- Motion / animation background (or strong animation sensibility)
- Experimental interactive work—playgrounds, prototypes, side projects
- Agency / studio experience on campaign-led builds
Why you’ll want this role
- 12-month contract extendable, 2-3 days hybrid weekly
- You’ll ship work that’s public, premium, and global —not hidden behind a login
- You’ll collaborate with people who care about craft as much as delivery
- You’ll have room to experiment and help shape what modern web storytelling looks like
- If you’ve ever looked at a campaign site and thought “this could be way cooler” —we should talk.
Interested? Apply & send your latest relevant CV + portfolio (or a few links) including your daily rate, availability to interview and start marina.economidou@templeton-recruitment.com Marina Economidou, Executive Solutions Consultant