There are very few jobs in software* that you can’t get without a bachelors or masters. There are a quite small number of semi-research software jobs that you practically need a PhD for. That means you are looking at a decade and there’s no guarantee what’s hot now will be hot then.

If you feel like you need to check a box for your own piece of mind look into a public school night program.

* That you’d want. I’m not counting dinosaur institutions that are so hidebound they want a degree for the sake of a degree.