We have open vacancies for a range of projects to be run during the summer vacation 2025.
Information about the projects we are recruiting for, and details on how to apply, are given below.
Details of the Posts
All posts are full-time posts, requiring 35 hours per week of work. The projects for these posts will run across the summer vacation – see the individual project descriptions for the specific start and end dates.
The base pay rate is £12.86, per hour, with an additional holiday payment on top of this. Payment is made monthly in arrears.
It is expected that the projects will be run on campus but with some scope for flexible and hybrid working across the week. Each team will set their own core hours when all team members must be present on campus and available for work. For example, typical core hours for Imago teams are 10.00am to 3.00pm. Additional hours are worked at a time and place convenient to each team member.
The posts are open to any undergraduate student studying at the University of Manchester who is eligible to work in the UK, including students who will graduate this summer. Note that students must be resident in the UK for the duration of the project (apart from days taken entirely as holiday) to be eligible for the work.
We especially welcome applications from members of groups who are under-represented in the software engineering profession. We aim to recruit diverse teams for Imago, containing a mixture of experienced team members and inexperienced but talented junior team members. Working for Imago is a great way to bootstrap your personal portfolio and add some real development experience to your CV.
The Projects
MelonTech Phase V
We have vacancies for 4 developers to undertake development work for the MelonTech project. MelonTech is a a University of Manchester research start-up that is developing tools to help patients living with diabetes, with an initial focus on Congenital Hyperinsulinism (CHI). The research that MelonTech is based on uses new approaches to analysing and visualising the glucose results, to help patients better manage their condition by helping them understand the triggers for repeating incidents of low and high blood glucose.
The aim of this phase of the project is to test and add resilience to the suite of Python micro services and Flutter end user clients that make up the MelonTech ecosystem. The components largely exist, but now need to be used to support a clinical trial of the software. This will involve adding monitoring and observability tools to the production system, to give early warning of problems, as well as some chaos engineering to help keep the system up and running throughout the clinical trial.
The project will give experience in building resilient micro-service based systems, as well as interacting with clients to gather the data needed by a research-based startup. Applicants should have excellent programming and system design skills, and an interest in learning how to ensure resilience and repairability of a production software system.
This project offers over 7 weeks of full-time employment, from 7th July to 7th September 2025. This timescale allows for 2 weeks of unpaid holiday to be taken flexibly across this period.
Project B
Two full-time posts are being offered to work with an academic team, to help them reach their stretch goals in the development of the tool to assist in the repair of security vulnerabilities in code.
The tool runs behind a webserver implemented in Go, but needs to be integrated into GitHub and other popular Git hosting services. The aim is to incorporate the repair facility into the standard developer workflow (e.g. using pull requests to allow review of the proposed repair).
The project will give experience at building advanced developer tools for cyber-security. Experience with Go, HTMX, Podman or LLMs for code generation will be an advantage. Willingness and ability to learn new tools quickly is essential for this role, given the timescales.
This project offers 5 weeks of full-time employment, from 9th June to 20th July 2025 (with 1 week of unpaid holiday to be taken flexibly across this period).
Project F
Four full-time posts are being offered to work with an academic team exploring the commercial potential of one of their recent research results. A prior Imago project has created a new version of the research tool (which analyses and reports on certain features of test code) which is able to be tested against real repositories. Tools to address the problems reported will also be explored. In addition, the team will help to further develop a set of tools for acquiring market data and identifying potential customers.
The project will give experience in the early stages of the commercialisation journey, as well as in code analysis and reporting techniques. Skills in Java, JVM, Python and CI platforms will be beneficial.
This project offers 8 weeks of full-time employment, from 9th June to 31st July 2025.
How to Apply
The deadline for applications is: 11.00pm BST on Sunday, 27th April 2025.
To apply, log in to your University of Manchester Office 365 account and complete the application form.
https://forms.office.com/e/s5p0k0G1Hi
Note that the form closes for applications at the deadline.
You will need to use your University of Manchester Office 365 account to submit a response to the form. Only one form response is allowed per person, but you can go back and edit your application before the deadline, should you wish.
Appointments to the posts will primarily be made on the basis of an interview, but in some cases we may make an offer based on the CV and application alone.
Employment with Imago is subject to confirmation of the applicant’s right to work in the UK, and a willingness to comply with University staff policies on ownership of IP and non-disclosure of confidential information.
Note: some of the posts we are advertising here are still going through the process of approval by the University and so may be subject to changes before the posts can begin.
More information about Imago can be found at imago.cs.manchester.ac.uk.