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noir_lord
I'm in the UK and work as a programmer (own business) but I don't have a degree, I would absolutely love a recognised online degree in software engineering, the nearest I've found so far is Open University (we've done distance learning here a long time and OU has an excellent reputation) but they only do as far as I can tell a BSc in Computing, you can pick software engineering modules inside that but at the end it's still BSc Computing not BSc Software Engineering.
NoCulturalFit
I wouldn't. It wouldn't take much until your "recognised" degree in Software Engineering contained some other unrelated shit just to appease some loud mouth lunatics.

So apart from learning Entity Component Systems 101, you have to take Gender Agnostic Components 101.

Github.com, create a library, write some tests, add documentation and let each employe valuate you individually to what they need the most.

You still won't avoid the dreaded cultural fit shit though.. No degree or Github portfolio will ever help with that.

flashm
I'd echo the other reply. Do as much as you can using online sources (Coursera, edX, plenty of CS and Algorithm courses etc) but just make sure the problem sets and any 'academic' programming is on your Github.

FWIW, I started a Maths degree with OU, and the material was excellent. Then my life took over...

EliRivers
I second the Maths degree with the OU. I just finished a masters in maths with them and they really didn't pull any punches. I am a far better mathematician now than I was five years ago (or rather, five years ago I wasn't any kind of mathematician, but now I can blitz through a post-graduate level textbook and bootstrap myself to competency). I'm getting a bit old for serious exams, though. I genuinely started to feel light-headed in the final one.