Aqif Mahmood

I'm a Senior Software Engineer based in Birmingham, UK, with over 7 years of experience building enterprise-grade applications in the fintech space — specifically across loans, mortgage, and servicing platforms.

At Phoebus Software, I've grown from a graduate analyst to Senior Software Engineer, heading up cross-functional teams and driving the modernisation of legacy monolithic systems into scalable microservices architectures. I work primarily in Java with Spring Boot, design RESTful APIs, and manage cloud-native deployments using Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Octopus Deploy).

Beyond the code, I enjoy mentoring junior developers, breaking down complex business requirements into actionable tasks, and fostering engineering best practices across teams. One of my proudest wins has been increasing sprint velocity by 50% simply by improving how we refined and structured our user stories.

I'm currently pursuing my AWS Solutions Architect certification as I look to deepen my cloud infrastructure expertise. I'm open to remote senior or lead engineering roles where I can keep building impactful, well-architected software — ideally in fintech or similarly complex domains.