# Will S. > Staff Software Engineer at PayPal Location: United States, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/wills ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ PayPal Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States ### Staff Software Engineer @ Tally Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States • Tech lead for Tally’s Web SDK during B2B pivot • Primary engineering point of contact for our first partner as they integrated the Web SDK (a major finance company with 65m+ users). • Led a team of 7 engineers working on the Web SDK • Wrote M&A technical due diligence documentation and gave technical presentations to potential acquirers, including the eventual acquirer – LendingClub. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Tally Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States • Tech lead for Tally’s first in-app web experience with Next.js. • Led research and design of possible Web SDK architectures for Tally’s B2B pivot. ### Software Engineer @ Tally Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States • Co-led implementation of a new onboarding app in React that increased account to borrower conversion by 27% • Maintained our existing Vue.js onboarding app and internal tools. • Presented a vision for a new internal tool. Designed, project managed and built that new internal tool for member success and operations. ### Software Engineer @ Apperio Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | London, United Kingsom ### Software Engineer @ Berry Technologies Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | London, United Kingdom ### Business Analyst @ Swoon Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | London, United Kingdom ### Investment Banking Analyst @ RBS Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 | London, United Kingdom ## Education ### Master’s Degree in MSc Computer Science University of St Andrews ### Bachelor’s Degree in Economics University of Nottingham ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/wjsears --- Source: https://flows.cv/wills JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/wills/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22