Senior Three.js Developers in Nepal — Ready to Embed in Your Team
We are Nepal's first dedicated WebGL studio. Hire vetted Three.js, react-three-fiber, and shader engineers from Kathmandu — project-based, retainer, or embedded into your existing team. Same engineering bar as London or San Francisco at a fraction of the rate. NDA-friendly, white-label, async-disciplined.
Most of the world's senior Three.js talent sits in five cities — London, Berlin, Paris, NYC, and San Francisco — and bills $180–$260/hour. We've spent the last four years building the bench in Kathmandu: developers who've shipped production WebGL for DTC brands, automotive OEMs, museums, and creative agencies. They write the same kind of clean r3f, the same kind of careful shader, the same kind of bandwidth-tight asset pipeline — at 25–35% of the cost, on a time zone that overlaps with London mornings, Singapore afternoons, and NYC evenings.
Our Three.js bench, in numbers
These are aggregate stats across the senior engineers on our roster as of Q2 2026. Every developer we put forward has shipped at least three production scenes that survive Google Lighthouse and a real-world traffic load.
The math, in three lines
A senior Three.js engineer in London bills £140/hour. The same role in San Francisco bills $200/hour. Our Kathmandu seniors bill $38–55/hour — and they're senior in the literal sense: 5+ years writing Three.js, 8+ years writing TypeScript, and at least three production WebGL launches under their belt before we put them on your team.
The gap doesn't exist because Nepal is a bargain bin — Kathmandu rents are 8% of SF, salaries are 18% of London, and good engineers earn excellent Nepali livings at our rates. The gap exists because economies are not yet flat. While that's still true, you can hire the same bar at a quarter of the cost. It will not be true forever. Lock the talent in now.
- ✓Senior bar: 5+ years Three.js, 8+ years JavaScript / TypeScript
- ✓Communication-first hiring: written briefs, video walk-throughs, async stand-ups
- ✓Time-zone overlap with EMEA mornings, APAC afternoons, US evenings
- ✓English fluency at the level of any London / NYC office
- ✓NDA and IP-assignment templates ready to sign before kickoff
Senior Three.js: $38–55/hr · Mid-level: $26–34/hr · Lead architect: $58–72/hr. We don't mark up — that's what the engineer actually earns minus a flat 18% ops overhead for HR, payroll, equipment, and project support.
Eight skill axes the senior bench has shipped in production
Three.js is a kit, not a framework. The bench depth matters: anyone can render a cube; you want engineers who've fought the long fights with frustum culling, draw-call batching, and Safari iOS lock-ups. Here's what ours actually have done at scale.
react-three-fiber + drei
Declarative scene graphs, Suspense-based streaming load, Zustand state, useFrame loop discipline. We've shipped r3f apps that lock 60 FPS on a Pixel 6a with 47 active draw calls and 8 PBR materials.
Custom GLSL shaders
Bespoke fragment & vertex shaders for materials, post-processing, particle systems, fluid sims, and procedural geometry. Compute shaders via WebGPU where supported.
Asset pipeline
Blender → glTF → Draco / Meshopt compression, KTX2 / BasisU textures, baked PBR, LOD switching, sprite-sheet animations.
WebXR / AR
WebXR scenes, Apple QuickLook USDZ generation, model-viewer fallback, six-DoF tracking with Hit-test.
Performance forensics
Chrome Performance + Spector.js + RenderDoc profiling, draw-call batching, GPU instancing, frustum culling, Workerized loading.
Post-processing & effects
Three.js EffectComposer, postprocessing-effects, custom bloom/DoF/SSAO. Optional pmndrs effects integration.
Physics & interaction
rapier / cannon-es / OIMO integration, raycaster-driven interactions, drag controls, gesture-to-3D mapping.
Production hardening
Sentry error capture, GA4 scene-event tracking, Lighthouse CI gates, CDN configuration for GLTFs, error boundaries with image fallbacks.
Senior Three.js hourly rate, four cities
Public-source averages for 2026, Senior IC level (5+ years Three.js, 8+ years JS/TS). Includes typical agency markup where applicable.
Four ways to actually hire the team
We've structured engagement to match how product teams and agencies actually work — not to lock you into a year of retainer for a four-week sprint.
Embedded engineer (3-month min)
One or more senior Three.js engineers joins your existing team as if you'd hired them yourself. Same Slack, same Linear/Jira, same stand-ups, same code review. You manage them day-to-day; we handle payroll, HR, equipment, and back-fill if anyone gets sick. Three-month minimum, 30-day notice after that.
- Senior IC seat
- Your tooling, your repo
- 30-day exit notice after month 3
- Back-fill guarantee
- Quarterly review
Fixed-price project
We scope, you sign a milestone plan, we deliver. Typical price range: $18k–$120k. Configurators, scroll scenes, virtual showrooms, AR-bridging experiences. 40/30/30 payment split: deposit, vertical-slice review, launch.
- Written milestone plan
- Fixed price + scope
- 40/30/30 payment
- Source code yours from day one
- 30-day post-launch warranty
Monthly retainer (rolling)
A set number of senior-Three.js hours per month, drawn down across whatever work you have — performance audits, ongoing feature builds, scene maintenance, on-call. 30-day notice both ways. Sweet spot is 60–120 hours/month.
- Set hours, draw down anytime
- Rolls over up to 25%
- 30-day notice both ways
- Optional on-call coverage
- Monthly written report
Performance audit (one-week sprint)
Inherited a slow Three.js project? We profile, write a fix plan, optionally execute the top 5 fixes. Fixed price: $6,800. Deliverables: written audit report, Lighthouse before/after, prioritised backlog. Often pays for itself in the first month of CWV improvements.
- 1-week sprint
- $6,800 fixed price
- Written audit + fix backlog
- Top-5 fixes optional
- Lighthouse before/after report
Active client distribution by geography
Snapshot of the current book of business. Most international work comes through agency referrals — once one art director has worked with us, they tend to bring the next project too.
How a hiring engagement actually moves
Fast — because that's the point of remote, vetted talent. Most embeds go from first call to first commit in under three weeks.
- 01Discovery call (60 min)We map your stack, your timeline, your team's working style. We tell you whether we're the right fit — or refer you out if we aren't. No deck pitch.
- 02Shortlist (within 4 working days)You get CVs + portfolio + 5-minute Loom intro from 2–3 engineers matched to your scope. You shortlist who you want to interview.
- 03Technical interview (you lead)You run your own technical loop — pair-programming, code review, system-design — exactly as you would for any senior IC hire. We don't gate.
- 04Paid trial weekOptional but recommended. Engineer takes a real ticket from your backlog at our rate. Either side can walk away at the end with no commitment.
- 05Engagement signedEmbed contract or project SOW. We handle the legal entity, payroll, NDA, IP assignment. You handle the work.
- 06Day-one onboardingWe sit with the engineer on day one to make sure repo access, Slack, CI/CD, and your project context are wired up before stand-up.
Sectors where our team ships in production
Hiring from us vs the alternatives
Hiring managers who've shipped with our engineers
"We embedded one of their senior r3f engineers into our LA team for the Q4 holiday season. He out-shipped two of our local mids and his perf instincts were unreal. Already renewed for 2026."
"We ran our own technical loop — five rounds, including a system-design and a Three.js deep dive — and the engineer they put forward passed at the level we'd expect for our $230k London hires. Now we just hire from them whenever we need a Three.js seat."
"Async, written, fast. Their team works the way our team works. Zero day-one friction, code review quality is high, and the project came in under both budget and timeline. We're on the third project with them now."
What it actually costs
Published rates as of 2026-Q2. Every engagement gets a written quote — these are the typical ranges so you don't have to schedule a call to learn whether we're in your budget.
Audit Sprint
One-week Three.js perf + architecture audit. Written report + prioritised backlog.
- ✓1 senior engineer for 1 week
- ✓Lighthouse before/after
- ✓Spector.js draw-call audit
- ✓Prioritised fix backlog
- ✓30-min hand-off call
Embedded Engineer
Senior Three.js / r3f IC embedded into your team. Most popular.
- ✓Full-time senior IC seat
- ✓Your repo, your Slack, your sprints
- ✓3-month minimum, 30-day notice after
- ✓Back-fill guarantee if engineer leaves
- ✓Includes equipment + ops overhead
Fixed-Price Project
Scope, milestone, deliver. Configurator / scroll scene / virtual showroom.
- ✓Written milestone plan
- ✓40/30/30 payment split
- ✓Source code yours day one
- ✓30-day post-launch warranty
- ✓Optional retainer for ongoing care
All prices in USD, net of taxes. Payable via wire, Wise, or any US/UK-domiciled banking rail. Embed pricing includes back-fill SLA and ops overhead — no separate "vendor management" line item.
Hiring Three.js engineers from Nepal — common questions
How senior is your senior bench, actually?
What's the time-zone overlap with the US, EU, and APAC?
Do you do white-label work for agencies?
How does IP assignment and contract law work for international clients?
What if the engineer we hire underperforms or quits?
Can we do a paid trial week before committing?
Do you cover only Three.js, or other 3D-on-the-web stacks?
What payment terms do you accept?
How do you handle data security and code access?
Tell us what you're building, get matched engineers within 4 working days.
60-minute discovery call. Mutual NDA signed before any portfolio review. Shortlist of 2–3 engineers with CVs, portfolios, and 5-minute Loom intros within 4 working days. Paid trial week recommended.
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