About this role
Be part of a team that unleashes the power of leading-edge technologies to help improve the health and well-being of those most vulnerable in our country and communities. Working at Gainwell carries its rewards. You’ll have an incredible opportunity to grow your career in a company that values work flexibility, learning, and career development. You’ll add to your technical credentials and certifications while enjoying a generous, flexible vacation policy and educational assistance. We also have comprehensive leadership and technical development academies to help build your skills and capabilities.
Summary
As Advisor Application Designer (Hybrid: California) at Gainwell, you can contribute your skills as we harness the power of technology to help our clients improve the health and well-being of the members they serve — a community’s most vulnerable. Connect your passion with purpose, teaming with people who thrive on finding innovative solutions to some of healthcare’s biggest challenges. Here are the details on this position.
Your role in our mission
Discover career satisfaction by design in this challenging position, where you will:
- Head up technical teams and workstreams as you design, develop, test and install complex database applications software — with server, client and web components
- Keep the team on the same page by overseeing relationships between application architects and developers to ensure design requirements result in flexible, reusable system components
- Create more satisfied clients by writing highly complex design, coding and testing documentation that yields purpose-built technical products that meet real needs
- Shine as an SME in the areas of development, domain, application design and database methodologies and best practices
- Show your know-how as you provide clients with technical consulting on highly complex projects by refining existing apps and designing new application modules and components
- Exercise your expertise by mentoring and guiding less experienced application designers
What we're looking for
- 9+ years of application, web and product design, development and support experience across all phases of the development life cycle, with 3+ years experience working on Medicaid and Medicare IT systems.
- Expertise in software and product design methodologies in Web (.NET C#), Batch (UNIX/C) and Cloud environments
- SQL experience with Oracle, SQL Server and other databases
- Expertise in application development policies, procedures and analyzing costing/budgets to determine financial feasibility
- Strong executive presence and excellent communication skills across application developers, customers, support personnel and management
- Effective leadership and motivational skills, as well as the ability to mentor individual contributors
What you should expect in this role
- Hybrid position at our Roseville, CA office
- Opportunities to travel through your work (0-10%)
- Video cameras must be used during all interviews, as well as during the initial week of orientation
- The deadline to submit applications for this posting is 1/12/2026
The pay range for this position is $100,000 - $125,000 per year, however, the base pay offered may vary depending on geographic region, internal equity, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. Put your passion to work at Gainwell. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your career in a company that values work flexibility, learning, and career development. All salaried, full-time candidates are eligible for our generous, flexible vacation policy, a 401(k) employer match, comprehensive health benefits, and educational assistance. We also have a variety of leadership and technical development academies to help build your skills and capabilities.
We believe nothing is impossible when you bring together people who care deeply about making healthcare work better for everyone. Build your career with Gainwell, an industry leader. You’ll be joining a company where collaboration, innovation, and inclusion fuel our growth. Learn more about Gainwell at our company website and visit our Careers site for all available job role openings.
Gainwell Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer, where all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition), age, sexual orientation, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
Other facts
About Gainwell Technologies LLC
For 50 years, our nation’s federal Medicaid program has worked to improve the health, safety and well-being of America’s most vulnerable populations: low-income families, women and children, seniors, and those with disabilities. With positive health and cost outcomes that pierce inequities and impact economies, the success of these programs is inextricably tied to the prosperity of communities, individual states and the nation as a whole. We think that demands respect and, more importantly, is deserving of a lifetime commitment from innovators who can help those who operate within and around health and human services evolve — in any market at any stage. At Gainwell Technologies, that’s our sole focus.
Built across more than five decades, Gainwell has intentionally seized opportunities to advance its digitally enabled services to meet agencies, health plans and MCOs where they are on their modernization journeys and propel them into the future of public health. Our commitment to innovation, deep experience and ability to leverage insights from customers across 50 states has allowed us to expand on next-generation, cloud-enabled technologies.
Today, Gainwell offers one of the most comprehensive suites of scalable services and solutions on the market — all proven to deliver cost savings, better patient outcomes and an improved provider experience. Equally important to our expanding technologies and results: We bring ideas that bring policies to life.
What you'll do
- As an Advisor Application Designer, you will lead technical teams in designing, developing, testing, and installing complex database applications. You will also provide technical consulting and mentor less experienced designers.
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