Looking for a Shopify 3d configurator developer

3D Developer - Three.js / WebGL Product Configurator (Shopify) Company: Ecom Maven Type: Contract, project-based (potential for ongoing work) Location: Remote Start: Immediate About the Agency Ecom Maven is an animation-first web design and development agency. We build cinematic, scroll-driven websites and interactive experiences for e-commerce, luxury, hospitality, and wellness brands. Our in-house team works in GSAP, Three.js, WebGL, Lenis, Shopify, and Webflow, with an AI-assisted production pipeline supporting art direction and asset generation. We are hiring a 3D Developer to build a real-time, game-style product configurator that lives inside a Shopify storefront. The Role You will own the 3D layer of the configurator end to end - from model optimization and shading through to real-time interaction and Shopify cart integration. The bar is a console-game feel running at 60fps on mid-tier mobile, not a spinning GLB in a viewer. You will work directly with our Creative Director and alongside our front-end and motion team. What You Will Build A real-time 3D configurator embedded in a Shopify theme, with game-style camera work, transitions, and UI feedback Live part, material, colorway, and finish swapping with correct PBR response Configurator state mapped cleanly to Shopify product variants, metafields, and line item properties Add-to-cart that carries the exact configuration the customer built Cinematic camera moves, hotspots, exploded views, and micro-interactions A performance budget you define and defend - load time, draw calls, texture memory, frame time Required Experience 3+ years shipping production Three.js or React Three Fiber work on live commercial sites Strong WebGL fundamentals and comfort writing custom GLSL shaders GLTF/GLB pipeline: Draco and Meshopt compression, KTX2/Basis textures, LODs, instancing, draw call reduction PBR material authoring, HDRI/IBL lighting, baked lightmaps and AO Blender or equivalent DCC for cleanup, retopology, UV work, and export hygiene Real-world mobile optimization - you can explain why a scene drops frames and fix it GSAP for camera choreography and state transitions Solid JavaScript/TypeScript, Git, and modern build tooling (Vite or similar) Shopify Requirements Working knowledge of Liquid, sections, and theme architecture Variant logic, metafields, line item properties, AJAX cart, Storefront API Ability to ship a 3D bundle into a Shopify theme without wrecking Lighthouse scores Nice to Have AR handoff - USDZ Quick Look, Android Scene Viewer, model-viewer Post-processing: bloom, SSAO, DOF, custom passes Physics (Rapier, Cannon) or procedural animation Hydrogen or headless Shopify Node/serverless for config persistence, shareable build links, or render-on-demand images Game engine background (Unity, Unreal, Godot) How We Work Clear scope, milestone-based delivery, direct feedback Figma and reference boards provided up front Weekly check-ins, async the rest of the time Code lives in our repo, documented and handed off clean To Apply Portfolio or reel with live links to 3D work you shipped - configurators, WebGL sites, or interactive product experiences A short note on which piece you are proudest of technically and why GitHub or a code sample showing your Three.js structure Your hourly rate and weekly availability Any experience integrating 3D into Shopify or another e-commerce platform Applications without live links will not be reviewed. If you have built a configurator that mapped to real product variants and real orders, lead with that.