Manager, Software Development
Job Summary
The Manager, Software Development leads a cross-functional software engineering team responsible for designing, developing, testing, deploying, and supporting software solutions that support the Group's products and services.
This role combines people leadership, delivery management, and technical oversight. The successful candidate will build and develop high-performing teams, drive predictable delivery, foster engineering excellence, and support the ongoing modernization of a mature enterprise software platform.
The role works closely with Product Management, Architecture, Quality Assurance, and business stakeholders across multiple general locations.

Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Delivery
• Lead, coach, and develop software engineering and quality engineering team members.
• Build a high-performing, collaborative, and accountable engineering culture.
• Manage team performance, career development, recruitment, and retention.
• Deliver product and platform roadmaps in partnership with Product Management.
• Manage priorities,



dependencies, delivery risks, and resource planning.
• Drive Agile delivery practices and continuous improvement initiatives.

Technical & Operational Leadership
• Provide technical oversight across application development, databases, APIs, testing, cloud-hosted environments, and deployment processes.
• Promote engineering best practices including code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, and secure software development.
• Support modernization initiatives through API-first, cloud-based, and automation-focused approaches.
• Ensure teams own the full software delivery lifecycle, including development, deployment, support, and operational stability.

AI, Automation & Continuous Improvement
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices to improve productivity, software quality, and delivery effectiveness.
• Encourage the use of AI tools for development, testing, documentation, troubleshooting, an

📌 Software Engineering Manager (Bogotá)
🏢 Safeguard Global
📍 Bogotá